Hyperkalemia Health Feed

The most common cause of genuinely high potassium (hyperkalemia) is related to your kidneys, such as Acute kidney failure. Chronic kidney disease. Eat a diet high in potassium. Eating too much food that is high in potassium can also cause hyperkalemia, especially in people with advanced kidney disease. Foods such as melons, orange juice, and bananas are high in potassium. Take certain drugs that prevent the kidneys from losing enough potassium.

Appetite surely decreases in kidney disease and dietary restrictions leads to weight loss. Potential complications may include: fluid retention, which could lead to swelling in your arms and legs, high blood pressure, or fluid in your lungs (pulmonary edema) a sudden rise in potassium levels in your blood (hyperkalemia), which could impair your heart's ability to function and may be life-threatening.

lybrate-user,
Sometimes due to surgery and dye given creatinine level increases, have a watch on this level if it's decreases no need of dialysis and if it's increasing and he has symptoms like blanching breathlessness, bradycardia, hyperkalemia, etc he would be requiring dialysis. No such side effects of it, just make sure you get it done from good dialysis centre where infection rates are less and nephrologist is available all the time to look after.

Hyperkalemia can cause junctional rhythm and brady. Other causes are symptomatic rbbb, lbbb and/or bifascicular block.
In certain persons brady is normal and not a cause of concern.
Beta antagonists also lower heart rate. Hypothyroidism and congenital heart disease are other causes.
Cardiac evaluation, holter monitoring, serum electrolytes and drug history are required.

You can drink 1 coconut water daily. There is no harm.
Instead it's very good.
Just don't take it on empty stomach as in some people it may cause gastric disturbances.

Eating too much food that is high in potassium can also cause hyperkalemia, especially in people with advanced kidney disease. Foods such as melons, orange juice, and bananas are high in potassium. Take certain drugs that prevent the kidneys from losing enough potassium. This can cause your potassium levels to rise.
According to the Mayo Clinic, a normal range of potassium is between 3.6 and 5.2 millimoles per liter (mmol/L) of blood. A potassium level higher than 5.5 mmol/L is critically hi...more

Causes of a widened qrs complex include right or left bbb, pacemaker, hyperkalemia, ventricular preexcitation as is seen in wolf-parkinson-white pattern, and a ventricular rhythm. Because there is a p wave associated with every qrs complex, a ventricular rhythm can be ruled out.

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Usually we donot give pottasium enriched salt substitutes as there is potentialfor adverse effects due to hyperkalemia especially risk of
arrythmias and sudden cardiac death.

Namastey
Excess blood sugar in the body usually gets stored in the liver for later use, but when it goes beyond the normal range it gets converted to cholesterol which is bad for a CABG patient.
coconut water has good amount of nutrients especially potassium which helps in controlling blood.pressure. However it can also increase blood.sugars so keep a watch on it. If patient also has kidney problems you need to watch the potassium levels.