It's so satisfying to eat pot tonic in winter! However, patients who are relatively weak, or have high blood pressure, chronic diseases, etc. should be extra careful when taking supplements. Emergency department physician Wei Zhiwei shared a case where taking supplements did not strengthen the body but had the opposite effect. The kidney function was greatly reduced and the heart was also affected. He was rescued after being sent to the hospital for emergency dialysis.
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Emergency department physician Wei Zhiwei shared the condition of the case on the program "Zhenzhen Youci". A male patient has three heights, is overweight, does not like to exercise, and does not take medicines for chronic diseases according to the doctor's instructions. Out of concern, his wife decided to help her husband take food supplements. Unexpectedly, after taking supplements for three consecutive days, her husband started to feel lethargic and weak. "It felt like his heartbeat would skip a beat." Dr. Wei Zhiwei explained that when the male patient was sent to the emergency room, his "heartbeat was left at 30 beats" and his "blood pressure was only 6 or 70." This meant that the heart could not bleed at all and the cardiac output was severely insufficient.
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After a blood test, it was found that the male patient's potassium ions were as high as 8 (normally around 3 to 5), making him a high-risk group for sudden death, because too high potassium ions may cause fatal arrhythmia. When helping the patient lower his potassium ions, Dr. Wei also recommended him to undergo emergency kidney dialysis to prevent the patient from becoming critical enough to require emergency treatment. However, patients are worried: "Will dialysis be necessary forever after just one dialysis?" Dr. Wei said not necessarily.
Dr. Wei explained that if you have a chronic disease with irreversible kidney function, you must rely on kidney dialysis to help detoxify. However, if it is an acute condition, such as excessive potassium ions caused by supplementation, kidney dialysis is only temporary hemodialysis. After the toxins are washed away, the kidney function If it can be recovered, it will not immediately progress to permanent dialysis. After understanding the situation, the male patient agreed to be hospitalized for kidney dialysis, and his subsequent condition improved. As for why supplementation harms the body? Dr. Wei explained that sometimes the ingredients of supplements are too complex and not everyone's kidneys can bear them.
