What are the symptoms of potassium deficiency? How to supplement diet therapy

The main symptoms of potassium deficiency in human body are tachycardia and arrhythmia, muscle weakness, numbness, irritability, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, hypotension, insanity and psychological indifference.

Eat more foods rich in potassium such as dairy products, fruits, vegetables, lean meat, viscera, bananas and raisins.

Potassium deficiency can cause irregular and accelerated heartbeat, abnormal electrocardiogram, muscle weakness and irritability, and finally lead to cardiac arrest. Generally speaking, healthy people will automatically excrete excess potassium. But patients with kidney disease should pay special attention to avoid taking too much potassium.

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Principles of dietary potassium supplementation

Be careful of excessive potassium supplementation. It should be noted that it is best to supplement potassium with food, and the use of potassium supplements needs the guidance of professional doctors in regular hospitals. Children should take 1600 mg of potassium every day, and adults should take 2000 mg every day. Improper or even excessive potassium supplementation will cause serious harm to the body, leading to confusion, dyspnea and even cardiac arrest.

Dialectical dietary potassium supplement. What kind of food you should eat depends on your illness and physique. It is best for patients with kidney disease to eat less soy products, patients with poor intestines to eat less crude fiber food, and women with weak constitution to eat less seaweed.

Don't be partial to food. Potassium is widely distributed in natural foods and is generally not lacking in daily diet. If the diet is unbalanced, people tend to eat meat, eggs, polysaccharides and salt, while eating less food, beans, vegetables and fruits, the intake of potassium will decrease.

Cooking should be scientific. Unreasonable cooking, cooking stuffing into vegetable juice and eating vegetables to get soup, is equivalent to eating "low-potassium vegetables", and a lot of potassium is lost invisibly.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-potassium