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Is low potassium linked to lupus?
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Rare: Low potassium is not a common association with lupus. Medicines like water pill used to treat kidney disease caused by lupus can lead to potassium loss in the urine. Rarely lupus can affect tubules in the kidney that handles potassium and cause potassium loss
Answered 1/26/2015
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Low K Lupus?: Most likely related to BP meds you are taking especially diuretics. Moving to a DASH eating plan will help low K as the low sodium (salt) in the DASH helps your kidney retain potassium (K) and it is a high K diet. Get book DASH Diet for Hypertension by T. Moore. The exact ID for the book is: ISBN: 0-7434-1007-6 e-book is eISBN-13: 978-1-43914-059-8 But check with about high K diet.
Answered 10/5/2015
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