What happens to you if you don't have enough potassium in your diet?

Answer 1

if your low in potassium, then that means that (some) of your arteries are clogged. you see... if you have at least a banana everyday, you clear 1 arterie from getting clogged. or anything else with poassium in it.

Answer 2

Low blood potassium, also called hypokalemia, can result from poor dietary intake, increased losses (diarrhea, vomiting, or losses through the kidneys), endocrine abnormalities (Conn's syndrome, Bartter or Gitelman syndromes), or from medications causing potassium to be lost or not absorbed.

Symptoms of hypokalemia include weakness, muscle aches, muscle cramps, constipation, and in severe cases cardiac arrhythmias, or paralysis.

Hypokalemia is frequently found in conjunction with hypomagnesemia (low magnesium), so if your doctor finds a low potassium level, make sure a magnesium level is checked as well.

Answer 3

Low potassium is known as hypokalemia. The effects on your body could be weakness, tiredness, tingling or numbness, nausea, fainting, abdominal craming, feeling thirsty most of the time, constipation, and there are more symptoms.

Answer 4

What happens when your potassium level in your body drops is that your heartbeat slows down and you can become weak. A low level of potassium in the body is referred to as hypokalemia.

Answer 5

Many times, a diuretic (water pill) can cause you to lose potassium rapidly. Make sure to eat your bananas!

Answer 6

It can give you a better chance of getting cancer.

Answer 7

It is called hypokalemia.It causes weakness,twitchings,headache.Lead to arrythmias,convulsions,coma etc.

Answer 8

Weak muscles, cramps, high blood pressure, irregular heartbeat.

Answer 9

They turn into a banana.

Answer 10

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