If someone with slight potassium deficiency were eating fish every day but one day took a potassium pill?
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What kind of reaction did they have?? Why was this person getting their potassium level checked daily?? Most practiotioners or whomever gave this person the potassium pill (What dose??) would have just gven them the pill probably 20 meq'a before stuffing them with bananas and such. Your story sounds pretty dubious when you put everything together or maybe your not getting all the facts straight. The most common reaction to potassium in the oral form is nausea don't take it on an empty\n stomach.\n\nAddendum:\nThat being the case probably some Gatorade would be in order and dietary modifications appropriate.  Asthma wouldn't affect your potassium levels.
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Yes - you will be overdosing on the iron within the pills.  This can be fatal, and is more common in children.
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You need to read this: it's serious,\npotassium:\nDefinitely avoid potassium supplements if you take drugs known as potassium-sparing diuretics (amiloride, spironolactone, triamterene), ...\n http://www.wholehealthmd.com/refshelf/substances_view/0,1525,10086,00.html\n\nhttp://members.tripod.com/~charles_W/arthritis12.html
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Potassium always helped me.. you need to eat bananas :D
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An imbalance of the other major blood chemicals which are calcium, sodium and potassium.  If your potassium level is too low, your magnesium level can be elevated.  Potassium is available in potatoes and bananas.  Calcium is in milk and cheese and the small bones in tiny fish like sardines and anchovies.  Sodium is in salt.  They work together in your body and an imbalance in one can effect the absorption or elimination of the others.
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One pill twice each day.
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I HAD SAME PROBLEM AND FOUND OUT I HAD LOW POTASSIUM LEVEL IN BLOOD. TRYING EATING BANNS OR SEE YOUR DOCTOR FOR A MEDICATION.
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If you doctot didn't put you on a special diet to control it, you probably could have an occasional one. I wouldn't go with more than one a day, though. And it is not only the sodium in it, but the caffeine also you need watch.
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It could be potassium supplements or something else I found on webmd.com a K+20 maybe it is a stronger version or could be ketamine also.  Check out http://www.webmd.com/drugs/drug-59890-K-20+Oral.aspx?drugid=59890&drugname=K-20+Oral \nthis may or may not help but would not hurt to try \nbest wishes
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You would die.  Your neurons don’t exactly work very well without the sodium channels working.  Tetrodotoxin from the puffer fish is a nice example of what happens to ya when your sodium channels are blocked.
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eat fish, good for brain power.
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i heard its from too little potassium. eat a banana
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To be on the safe side, take a daily multiple vitamin/mineral supplement.
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what happened to you is called a "CHARLIE HORSE"  a really painful leg cramp i get them sometimes.  You get them because you are lacking POTASSIUM  you can prevent them by eating a banana, or taking a supplement but bananas do the trick the problem is if you eat a banana today you may get a charlie horse tonight but if you continue to eat a banana every day you won't have them starting tommorrow(it takes a day to absorb)  also you may be dehydrated drink more water and it will help also don't worry alot of people get them and they suck! so forget about the apple a day theory an banana will do the trick!
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Orange juice and bananas.  My husband has cancer and as a side effect of treatments has significant fluid retention.  He has been prescribed a diuretic, which can cause potassium to drop.  His oncology team has told us he needs to eat bananas and drink orange juice every day.
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i think so probably because of the high potassium
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From Wikipedia:\n"Potassium is vital in the human body and oral potassium chloride is the common means to replenish it, although it can also be diluted and given intravenously. It can be used as a salt substitute for food, but due to its weak, bitter, unsalty flavor, it is usually mixed with regular salt, sodium chloride, for this purpose to improve the taste. Medically it is used in the treatment of hypokalemia and associated conditions, for digitalis poisoning, and as an electrolyte replenisher. Brand names include K-Dur®, Klor-Con®, Micro-K®, and Kaon Cl®. Side effects can include gastrointestinal discomfort including nausea and vomiting, diarrhea and bleeding of the gut. Overdoses cause hyperkalemia which can lead to paresthesia, cardiac conduction blocks, fibrillation and arrhythmias, also sclerotic effects."