Physical symptoms of potassium deficiency can include muscular cramps and twitching, muscular weakness, even actual muscle damage, reduced or absent reflexes, fatigue, fragile bones, irregular heartbeat and other cardiovascular irregularities, kidney failure, lung failure, and disturbances in conductivity and contractibility of heart muscle.
The skin and muscle tone will be bad. The flesh does not cling firmly to the body’s bony framework. Lines and wrinkles fill the face and neck.
Potassium depletion results in muscular weakness and mental confusion and is reflected in electrocardiographic changes and loss of smooth muscle motility e.g. in the intestine.
Mental symptoms can include nervous disorders of various types, anorexia, insomnia, a slowdown of cognitive processes, and depression.
Death in potassium deficiency may result from cardiac or respiratory failure or from paralytic ileus.
There are certain health situations that can make a person more susceptible to suffering from a deficiency of potassium.
These include alcoholism, health conditions requiring the use of certain types of diuretics, periods of high stress and illnesses or conditions that result in extended periods of diarrhea and vomiting.
Some situations of people own making can contribute to potassium deficiency. These include excessive caffeine intake and a diet made up of mostly processed foods. Millions living in today’s civilization and eating its commercialized, processed foods have a potassium deficiency. C
onsuming excessive amount of salt daily can also attribute to the decrease of potassium in the human body.
Deficiency can occur as a result of vomiting, diarrhea and chronic usage of purgatives. It may also occurs as a result of urine loss in wasting disease and starvation, overdosage with drugs. Prevention is always better than trying to cure illness or repair damage.
Potassium deficiency symptom
