- General Drug Summary
- Description
- a "spike" of electrical discharge. The ability of cells to produce electrical discharge is critical for body functions such as neurotransmission, muscle contraction, and heart function. Potassium is also an essential mineral needed to regulate water balance, blood pressure and levels of acidity.
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- Summary In Neonatal Jaundice
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1 record(s) for Potassium Effective in Inducing Remission in Neonatal Jaundice.
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- 634670
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- Effective in Inducing Remission
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- Essential elements of human health, and its content as an indicator of health status
- Effect of phototherapy on nitrogen and electrolyte levels and water balance in jaundiced preterm infants. Pediatrics, 1978 Feb [Go to PubMed]
- Twenty-four-hour metabolic balance studies were performed in ten jaundiced preterm infants, five light-treated (phototherapy) and five controls. Each of the light-treated infants was studied twice, once during phototherapy (period I) and once 48 hours after phototherapy (period II). Control infants were similarly studied during the corresponding days. Compared to period II and control infants, during period I the light-treated infants had less weight gain. Intestinal transit time was decreased by 50%. Fecal excretion of nitrogen, sodium, and potassium was increased. Stool water loss was increased twofold to threefold with a decrease in water balance. Unmeasured water loss was increased. These studies underscore the need for careful attention to fluid and caloric supplementation during phototherapy.
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3 record(s) for Potassium Effective in Maintaining Remission in Neonatal Jaundice.
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- 7304158
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- Effective in Maintaining Remission
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- Essential elements of human health, and its content as an indicator of health status
- Effect of phototherapy on neonatal fluid and electrolyte status. Acta paediatrica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 1981 [Go to PubMed]
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healthy' fullterm infants with hyperbilirubinaemia exposed to continuous phototherapy of different intensities, increased their oral intake of milk formula by 33%, 48% and 52% and 24, 48 and 72 h, respectively, irrespective of the intensity of exposure; this was significantly more than in the controls, who were swaddled. Serum osmolality and electrolyte values demonstrated no significant change from pre-phototherapy values, and were similar to those of the control group except for significantly raised potassium levels at 72 h in 2 of the 3 phototherapy groups. These raised values were, however, not dangerously high, and rapidly reverted to normal with cessation of phototherapy. The osmolality of the milk formula feeds was 272.4 +/- 8.2 (mean +/- SE) mmol/kg, potassium 27.8 +/- 1.4 mmol/l and sodium 16.0 +/- 0.8 mmol/l. Phototherapy even for 72 h does not significantly affect the fluid and electrolyte status of hyperbilirubinaemic infants fed with fairly high solute load milk formulas.
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- Effective in Maintaining Remission
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- Essential elements of human health, and its content as an indicator of health status
- [Biochemical and hematometric effects of exchange transfusion in isoimmunized neonates]. Boletín médico del Hospital Infantil de México, 1993 Mar [Go to PubMed]
- A hundred twenty full term newborns infants (RN) with ABO or Rh isoimmunization who were submitted to exchange transfusion (ET) because hyperbilirubinemia have been studied and with the procedure were demonstrated: 1. Increase the levels of serum sodium in 2.8% in the RN of ABO group and 3.2% in the RN of Rh group with a recurrence of the original values prior to the procedure within three hours post-ET. 2. The levels of serum sodium equal or superior to 180 mEq/L (mmol/L) in the donor's blood led to hypernatremia after the ET, with a recurrence of the original values prior to the procedures within three hours post-ET. 3. The levels of serum potassium of the RN decreased (-7.7% in the ABO group and -5.47% in the Rh group) with a recurrence of the normal values in the control of six hours post-ET in the ABO group and one of 12 hours in the Rh group. 4. The levels of total calcium in the controls haven't been significantly altered up to 24 hours post-ET. 5. Regarding the pH, in spite of having used blood with ow levels compared to those expected for fresh blood, the RN for this experiment maintained the acid-base balance within normal range. In relation to the hematimetric values, the ET: 1. Increase both hemoglobin (Hb) and hematocrit (Hto) values in both groups (increase of 5.6% in Hb and 6% in Hto in the ABO group and increase of 9.2% in Hb and 6.1% in Hto in the Rh group), right after the ET, with a reduction in the control posterior to that. 2. The values of Hb and Hto were always inferior in the RN in the Rh group. Therefore, it has been shown the high intensity of the hemolysis in this group.
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- Essential elements of human health,and absorption of potassium was significantly impaired in the jaundiced neonates receiving phototherapy.
- Diarrhoea in jaundiced neonates treated with phototherapy: role of intestinal secretion. Archives of disease in childhood, 1989 Aug [Go to PubMed]
- Thirty jaundiced neonates with diarrhoea who were being treated with phototherapy and 30 matched control infants were studied to try and find out the cause of the diarrhoea. Faecal osmolality and electrolyte concentrations were measured, which gave clear evidence that the diarrhoea arose from intestinal secretion. Rectal water and electrolyte absorption in 10 jaundiced infants receiving phototherapy, in 10 jaundiced infants not receiving phototherapy, and in 10 healthy controls was measured with a rectal dialysis bag. A further group of eight jaundiced infants was also studied both during and after phototherapy to document the reversal of ion transport changes. Absorption of water, sodium chloride, and potassium was significantly impaired in the patients receiving phototherapy compared with each of the control groups. Such impairment was transient, as it was not apparent when the jaundice faded and phototherapy was stopped. These data show that the colon plays a part in the pathogenesis of secretory diarrhoe and that both hyperbilirubinaemia and phototherapy are necessary for such an effect to develop.