Amazoniac
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aguilaroja, I want to let you know that I respect your opinion in spite of your questionable appearance.
Here is an example:
Does that mean that it's a bad idea to start your day with some orange of the juices?
In the same way that someone in such case couldn't handle that much juice a day, the same applies to supplementing too much.
Since it's not good to mess up the digestion of a meal with bicarbonates, it's best to take them on empty stomach. If a person is trying to restore the proper electrolyte balance of the disturbed cells, I have with the difficulties imagining that a dose of sodium by itself is something desirable, but please correct me if I'm wrong.
Here is an example:
Orange Juice-Induced Hyperkalemia in a Diabetic Patient with Chronic Renal Failure
"Herein we report on a diabetic patient who developed life-threatening hyperkalemia after consuming large amounts of orange juice to treat hypoglycemia."
"A nurse told him to drink orange juice. Over the following 24 h the patient consumed ~1 gallon of orange juice. Hypoglycemia resolved, but the patient then complained of weakness."
"Elevated serum potassium levels are common in diabetic patients. Etiologies include chronic renal failure (as was present in our patient), hyporeninemic hypoaldosteronism, and the use of medications that decrease potassium excretion, such as potassium-sparing diuretics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, heparin, and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (our patient was taking lisinopril). Absolute or relative insulin deficiency will inhibit uptake of potassium by cells, thus decreasing tolerance to an acute potassium load (2). Moreover, hyperglycemia itself can result in hyperkalemia in patients with diabetes and hypoaldosteronism (3). Thus, administration of foods with a high sugar and potassium content to a diabetic patient with impaired potassium tolerance may raise serum potassium levels, resulting in severe hyperkalemia."
"As depicted in Table 1, fruit juices have widely varying potassium contents. Although we recognize that the development of hyperkalemia in our patient resulted from the extremely large amount of orange juice consumed (1 gallon contains ~7.6 g of potassium) in the face of impaired potassium tolerance, we believe it is unncessary and potentially dangerous to treat hypoglycemia with a juice that contains large amounts of potassium. We now use cranberry juice to treat symptomatic hypoglycemia in all diabetic patients with renal insufficiency at our hospital."
"Herein we report on a diabetic patient who developed life-threatening hyperkalemia after consuming large amounts of orange juice to treat hypoglycemia."
"A nurse told him to drink orange juice. Over the following 24 h the patient consumed ~1 gallon of orange juice. Hypoglycemia resolved, but the patient then complained of weakness."
"Elevated serum potassium levels are common in diabetic patients. Etiologies include chronic renal failure (as was present in our patient), hyporeninemic hypoaldosteronism, and the use of medications that decrease potassium excretion, such as potassium-sparing diuretics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, heparin, and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (our patient was taking lisinopril). Absolute or relative insulin deficiency will inhibit uptake of potassium by cells, thus decreasing tolerance to an acute potassium load (2). Moreover, hyperglycemia itself can result in hyperkalemia in patients with diabetes and hypoaldosteronism (3). Thus, administration of foods with a high sugar and potassium content to a diabetic patient with impaired potassium tolerance may raise serum potassium levels, resulting in severe hyperkalemia."
"As depicted in Table 1, fruit juices have widely varying potassium contents. Although we recognize that the development of hyperkalemia in our patient resulted from the extremely large amount of orange juice consumed (1 gallon contains ~7.6 g of potassium) in the face of impaired potassium tolerance, we believe it is unncessary and potentially dangerous to treat hypoglycemia with a juice that contains large amounts of potassium. We now use cranberry juice to treat symptomatic hypoglycemia in all diabetic patients with renal insufficiency at our hospital."
Does that mean that it's a bad idea to start your day with some orange of the juices?
In the same way that someone in such case couldn't handle that much juice a day, the same applies to supplementing too much.
Since it's not good to mess up the digestion of a meal with bicarbonates, it's best to take them on empty stomach. If a person is trying to restore the proper electrolyte balance of the disturbed cells, I have with the difficulties imagining that a dose of sodium by itself is something desirable, but please correct me if I'm wrong.