Is Your Potassium Low? | Science Behind Potassium Deficiency 

Potassium deficiency signs and symptoms. What causes low potassium levels in the body. Do I need potassium? Symptoms of potassium deficiency to KNOW.
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Potassium is up there, as one of the most important minerals that your body needs, because of the amount of roles potassium takes on in your body to essentially regulate your muscle contractions, maintain healthy nerve function, and regulate the fluid balance in and out of your body.
What causes low potassium?
Malnutrition or diuretic therapy is a good starting point for a potential cause, lets say if you're on a water pill and your constantly flushing out potassium and other electrolytes. Other big factors that cause low potassium are from vomiting, chronic diarrhea, having a magnesium deficiency which will cause a potassium deficiency as the two are related, having an eating disorder such as bulimia nervosa, alcoholism, excessive sweating, chronic kidney disease, as well as some of medicines that can cause low potassium which the typical ones being: insulin, and medicines classified as water pills which can affect your lab readings when your potassium is being tested because certain medications shift potassium in and out of your cells which does have an impact on how your levels will read out on paper.
Mild potassium deficiency symptoms
Mild as you can see, is anything from 3 - 3.5, and we have here that it says asymptomatic, which means you wont see any symptoms with mildly low potassium in the body. But If I were to go with what could potentially arise, it would be the feeling of being tired more often than not, and not having that same energy to walk a flight of stairs that you used to or if you notice that your regular routine work that you would do such as walking your dog, all of a sudden feels a lot more tiring. It could be a sign of low potassium, but keep in mind that its not definitive. And that goes for both physical and mental tiredness and fatigue. So the feeling of unexplained fatigue, would be mild in my opinion.
Moderate potassium deficiency signs
Moderate is anything from 2.5 to 3. And we see here that we get, cramping, weakness, malaise which is basically general discomfort, and myalgia which is basically muscle pain. Which tends to be a big complaint with low potassium and happens essentially because potassium helps relay signals from your brain to stimulate contractions right, and when your low, your brain cant relay these signals as effectively, causing a lagged contraction, which in turn causes those cramps in the first place.
Severe potassium deficiency signs
As far as the severe signs, severe as you can see: is anything under 2.5, which will cause big changes on the heart monitor that can be detected, as well as arrhythmias, which are irregular heart rhythms that your doctor will see on the ecg, which is treated with iv potassium replacement under your doctors care.
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This video is for information only and should not be used for the diagnosis or treatment of medical conditions. Dr. Arsalan Aspires has used all reasonable care in compiling the information but make no warranty as to its accuracy. Always consult a doctor or other healthcare professional for diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions.
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