However, any condition causing even mild hyperkalemia should be treated to prevent progression into more severe hyperkalemia. Extremely high levels of potassium in the blood (severe hyperkalemia) can lead to cardiac arrest and death. When not recognized and treated properly, severe hyperkalemia results in a mortality rate of about 67%.
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3 mEq/mL) of patients. This case report describes hyperkalemia in a 72-year-old female with diabetes and underlying chronic renal failure receiving metoprolol. Chronically, potassium balance is maintained by the kidney. In acute situations, such as a larger than normal potassium load, both the kidney and the body's cells react to maintain normal potassium levels.
High potassium in your blood (Hyperkalemia) if it's not because of your kidneys function, is associated with some medical conditions eg Lupus, Diabetes, Addison disease, hormonal disorders etc but if there isn't a medical condition causation, it can also be caused by diet and medications....
"Medications that have been linked to hyperkalemia include:
-Antibiotics, including penicillin G and trimethoprim.
It seems potassium is normally excreted by the kidneys, so disorders that decrease the function of the kidneys can result in hyperkalemia. The kidneys normally remove excess potassium from the body. Therefore, most cases of hyperkalemia are caused by disorders that reduce the kidneys' ability to excrete potassium. Individuals with kidney dysfunctions are especially sensitive to medications that can increase blood potassium levels and that includes an ACE inhibitor..
I gave a lot of thought before posting again, because I am sure you are the greastest mom and would never want to endanger your children. This post IS NOT a criticism, or an attempt to make you feel badly. Albuterol is a "last ditch" emergency medication. When you reach for the albuterol you are "reaching for lung reserve". Once that albuterol is ingested, the lung has no more reserve.
last week we went to see a cardiologist for my slow heartbeat and sometimes there some long gap before the next beat and the doctor gave me ventolin for the treatment. do we use ventolin for those types of problem? and during the week my beat went up to 80and 90 at rest and i am 71 years old is it prudent for me to continue with such treatment?
Again, albuterol is usually used in the nebulizer and it takes about 15 minutes to finish the breathing treatment. You will feel the faster heart rate and possibly some muscle twitches and shakes for awhile after the treatment; that lasts about 30 minutes for me.
How often are you using the albuterol? Every 4 hours is the norm. Certainly you should not be experiencing the arrhythmia all the time.
I wrote in to this website when my son was 4 years old and started with transient motor tics, right after having two back-to-back illnesses (with a high temperature) and also after being treated with albuterol for severe asthma. His tics have not been as bad as they were the first time he started having them, but are still present at times. He is also growing out of asthma.
I have an appointment in 2 weeks with my primary doctor, but I was prescribed these medications by a different doctor who was filling in... albuterol (the emergency inhaler), Singulair (I take 10mg once every night), and one puff twice a day of Dulera with a chamber (I always rinse afterwards). It seems like a lot of meds. I’ve been on Singulair and albuterol for a few weeks, and I’ve been taking Dulera for about a week now.
Do your symptoms occur at the same time each year? If so, I would think that you are having allergy issues triggering your breathing problems. If that is the case, you should discus starting treating allergies at least 2 weeks before you allergy season starts with your doctor.
As Tammy said, the treatment plan your dr has prescribed is standard for an asthma flare. The symptoms won't go away on their own. As you have seen this year, they escalate with neglect.
I have asthema all my life I am now 25 I was always in and out of the hospital with my asthama one year my perants just moved into a new house with me and my sister about 8 years ago I could not breath so my dad took to nowdoc in letterkenny thank god it was my own gp was on she put me on a machine to help me breath and I was ok after that she give a tablet to to take I took that and when I got home the dr said if the symtoms comes back to go to a&e so unfortunely it did I got sick and thr
Nearly 98% of potassium is intracellular, meaning contained within the cells of the body. What happens is that during the blood draw or in the laboratory tube, some of the cells rupture, leaking potassium into the serum. This causes a high value of potassium to be measured in the serum, which doesn’t necessarily reflect what is truly in your extra-cellular space.
All of them Xopenex is the only one that does not go by albuterol. No generics because of the cfc ban. We do have generic albuterol neb solution. The Xopenex doesn't cause the shakiness that the other versions do and can be more effective. I wonder if that is what part of my problem has been? hmmmmm... I am going to ask for a sample of Xopenex to try for odor exposures again.
it may be that his GFR is not up to par..this is the filtering of the blood...you need the labs..if the creatine is higher than 1.3 then the GFR will decrease..this may lower the potassium..dehydration make the potassium higher..
the doc said this was mabey hyperkalemia is higer potassium...and low potassium is hypoklamia...or the other way..i might be off..you can google this and pull up sites to were you can get good info..read on it,,this may help you see what may or may not be wrong.
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I have been suffering with occassional brethlessness with uneasiness/slight pain in the area from the bottom of the rib cage to the bottom of throat
for the last six months and the lung x-ray and PFT were okay. The doctor
advised me to undergo Methacholine challenge test. I am somehow apprehensive of taking this test inview of the side effects. I wish to know if theMethacholine challenge test will have any side effects, immediatly or in the long run, and if I can safely take the test.
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