Edoardo Bove is better, but is waiting for new studies before the operation for the defibrillator. The young people midfielder Viola collapsed to the ground during the Florentine-Internal match after a blow between chest and spleen. According to the experts at the basis of the disease, there would be a heart rhythm disorders, which may also have been caused by a possible decrease in blood calendar values. In medicine, this potentially fatal disorder is called hypokaliemia or hypotaxiemia. But what are the symptoms and causes? Let’s go to order.
The decrease in potassium: symptoms and causes
As explained in a -depth -analysis on Today.itPotassium is an indispensable mineral for the correct functioning of the body, especially for that of the muscles and the heart. This allows the nerve tissues to work well and the muscles can contract. It is therefore also useful for the regular stroke of the heart. In fact, a deficiency can cause important disorders for muscle contraction, even at myocardial level.
The lack of this mineral salt can cause fatigue, muscle weakness, cramps, fever, breathing difficulties, nausea, sleepiness and tachycardia. Disorders can be more or less serious, depending on the situation, in some cases they can even be fatal. You can even go to the cardiac arrest.
Blood calendar levels can fall due to taking diuretic medicines or excessive use of laxatives. But even after prolonged episodes of vomiting and diarrhea, chronic kidney disease, food or metabolic disorders. Sometimes the levels can also be lowered by high sweating due to sport or high temperatures.
Potassium -rich food
Potassium is located in a wide variety of foods, from green leafy vegetables such as spinach to tomatoes. But it is also present in legumes (beans and peas), in fresh fruit (bananas), in the dried (almonds) and in tubers (potatoes). Meat, dairy products and fish such as salmon, cod and sardines are also rich in potassium.
In addition to food, potassium can also be taken through specific nutritional supplements, preferably indicated by your trusted doctor, especially in cases of a diagnosed shortcoming. Too high values of potassium in the blood can in fact be just as fatal.
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