In the sultry summer, many people like to sweat after a meal... Recently, the reporter learned from the emergency rooms of many hospitals in the city that the patients with hypokalemia in the recent hot weather increased significantly. The reason for this is excessive sweating. Some young people Sports sweat more, resulting in "K-deficiency softness."
After the exercise, the legs and feet become soft and nausea. It is hypokalemia.
Mr. Lin is a basketball enthusiast. A few days ago, he and his friends suddenly felt limbs and weakness after playing the game, especially the weakness of the lower limbs, but also some nausea. Everyone thought that Mr. Lin had suffered a heat stroke and quickly gave him ten drops of water, but the symptoms did not ease. Immediately afterwards, Mr. Lin was taken to the doctor and the doctor informed that it was actually hypokalemia. After infusion of potassium, Mr. Lin soon recovered.
Coincidentally, the money masters working at the site have also experienced signs of fatigue and limb numbness in recent days. After scraping, it did not work. After diagnosis, the symptoms of money master were caused by hypokalemia.
"The body's potassium content is not high, and sweating in summer is very easy to cause potassium deficiency." Dr. Qiu Xianke, an emergency department of the Central Hospital, said that there are many reasons for low potassium, which is generally caused by heavy manual labor and strenuous exercise in summer. The body sweats a lot and causes the loss of potassium and sodium.
Hypokalemia is easily mistaken for heatstroke
Qiu Xianke said that hypokalemia can easily be mistaken for heat stroke. The main manifestations are fatigue, numbness in the limbs, severe respiratory arrhythmia, irregular heartbeat, and even cardiac arrest. The symptoms of heat stroke are more complicated. “The number of patients with low-grade potassium has increased recently. Every week, several patients are admitted to the hospital,” said the doctor in the emergency room of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenmei Medical University. Most of the morbidity is caused by excessive perspiration, and severe hypokalemia patients even stopped breathing.
The doctor said that potassium mainly maintains water and salt metabolism in the body, and that by regulating the activity of several enzymes in the body, muscles and nerves are in a normal state of excitement. If there is less potassium in the body, blood pressure is abnormal, and heart rate will not be normal. However, normal people do not suffer from hypokalemia in their daily lives without substantial sweating, because potassium can be supplemented by diet and discharged through sweat, urine, and the body can regulate and maintain the homeostasis of serum potassium.
Excessive amount of sweat and exercise can be supplemented with sodium and potassium sports drinks
Doctors reminded the public that summer can eat more potassium-rich foods, such as beans, fruits and fish, such as bananas, bayberry, pears, the potassium content is high.
"Refilling with a small amount of water is appropriate. The easiest way is to add warm water and salt in divided doses. It is not meaningful to simply add boiled water." Qiu Xianke suggested that people can drink some sports drinks containing sodium and potassium after exercising. Can not be too sweet, if the sugar content is too high, will make blood sugar rise rapidly, then cause the reduction of serum potassium.
According to reports, sweating is too much, a lot of water and electrolyte discharge, blood concentration, sticky, but the body will make feedback to let people drink water, but if only a simple large amount of drinking water will occur hypokalemia and other electrolyte disorders caused by malignant arrhythmia; short When there is not a lot of electrolyte water intake, it will make the liquid enter the brain, causing brain edema, causing coma in severe cases.
