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What are the differences between hypokalemia and hypokalemia periodic paralysis?
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Hypokalemia: Hypokalemia means low (hypo) potassium level in the blood. Some individuals have a rare genetic disorder and abnormality in the potassium channels in their muscle cells, which can cause muscle weakness with low potassium.
Answered 1/22/2014
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Low K and paralysis: Low K means your blood K is low. You need to find out why. Periodic paralysis is often inherited and people have sudden lowering of blood K for unknown reasons and become paralyzed. When K goes up again the can walk again. Often brought on by eating are dose of CHO. I had one family member of a patient who died in ER when he was given K but he suddenly received and K shot up and he die of high K.
Answered 9/27/2015
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