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What Causes Deranged Potassium Levels?

my mother is suffering with multiple problems like heart function is 15 % & creatnine is 1,56 her potassium
level goes high upto 6,i am quiet worried of this ,dr has kept her on Lasix 1/2 -1/2 but still sometime it shootup pls suggest is there any medicine which can keep her pot.level in control.pls reply.- bina
Wed, 14 Jan 2015
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Hi,
She has heart failure with low ejection fraction with derranged kidney function.
Consult your treating doctor, she should not be on any drug which increases potassium levels like Ace inhibitors, ARB blockers, Aldosterone antagonist, digoxin.
you have not given history whether she is diabetic or not.
She should avoid the food which contain excess of potassium like juices, banana etc.
She can take cation exchange resin orally and nebulisation with levolin under guidance of her doctor.
Correction of severe metabolic acidosis with sodium bicarbonate if present.
Take care.
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What Causes Deranged Potassium Levels?

Hi, She has heart failure with low ejection fraction with derranged kidney function. Consult your treating doctor, she should not be on any drug which increases potassium levels like Ace inhibitors, ARB blockers, Aldosterone antagonist, digoxin. you have not given history whether she is diabetic or not. She should avoid the food which contain excess of potassium like juices, banana etc. She can take cation exchange resin orally and nebulisation with levolin under guidance of her doctor. Correction of severe metabolic acidosis with sodium bicarbonate if present. Take care.