HOW TO SURVIVE YOUR DOCTOR: POTASSIUM, PREDNISONE
Potassium
Potassium is one of the bodies’ most essential dissolvable minerals. It ranks second only in order of importance to sodium. Potassium becomes especially important to people placed on Fluid Tablets in the management of heart and kidney failure. Depending on the variety, prescribed Fluid Tablets can either raise or reduce the levels of potassium in the Hood. Both high and low serum potassium can lead to cardiac arrest. The vulnerability of the heart to the dangerous effects of altered potassium levels is further potentiated by the actions of Digoxin. Fluid Tablets and Digoxin are commonly used together in the management of cardiac disease and the combination is one that needs constant supervision.
One way that doctors use to overcome the potassium depleting effects of Fluid Tablets is to prescribe potassium in the form of Slow К or Span K. For a long time potassium taken in this way has been known to cause ulceration of the small bowel. Effervescent forms may be kinder to the small bowel; however the issue is better avoided by the use of alternative medication to Fluid Tablets in the first place. In this day and age members of the ACE inhibitor group of drugs have become the medication of first choice in the management of heart failure.
Potassium has also been implicated in the causation of high blood pressure. Low potassium and high sodium may combine in some people to produce higher levels of blood pressure. Calcium and magnesium are thought to be interrelated as well. Any attempt to reduce blood pressure through the use of a low sodium intake, cannot do justice until the provision for an increase in the intake of potassium is made at the same time.
Prednisone
Prednisone is a commonly used anti allergy steroid hormone. Like Cortisone its long term use has multiple destructive side effects. Therapeutic doses of Prednisone produce muscle wasting, osteoporosis, a build up of fat around the abdomen, face and shoulders, elevation of the blood sugar and the blood pressure also. All of these side effects are accompanied by thinning of the skin with the production of stretch marks and bruises.
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GENERAL HEALTH
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