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低血钾（Hypokalemia） Hypokalemia Help edit an encyclopedia Serum potassium concentration is lower than 3.7mEq / L, which is called hypokalemia. Hypokalemia is a different concept from potassium deficiency, which refers to the total potassium deficiency in the body. Potassium deficiency does not necessarily decrease when systemic potassium deficiency is present, while hypokalemia may not be accompanied by a deficiency of body potassium. Therefore, according to the concentration of potassium to determine whether potassium in the body is normal, often misdiagnosed. After the application of glucose and insulin, the level of serum potassium is markedly reduced, because potassium enters cells to synthesize glycogen, so body potassium does not decrease. After trauma or surgery, increased blood potassium is not a manifestation of increased body potassium. But hypokalemia is usually associated with a deficiency of body potassium. Catalog Clinical symptom Etiology pathology clinical diagnosis Treatment Preventive health care Open Clinical symptom Etiology pathology clinical diagnosis Treatment Preventive health care Open Edit this paragraph Clinical symptom Neuromuscular symptoms Potassium has the nervous function of maintaining nerve muscle, and the neuromuscular system can only make it normally normal when the blood potassium is kept at a certain concentration. When the potassium concentration in the extracellular fluid decreases, the neuromuscular excitability decreases and paralysis occurs. Hypokalemia is characterized by weakness and paralysis of the muscles. Generally from the lower limb, manifested as difficult activities, standing instability, with the swelling of low potassium, myasthenia gravis can be more serious, trunk and upper limb muscle strength is also significantly reduced. Respiratory failure can occur when affecting respiratory muscle. Ping Jing gravis showed intestinal paralysis and paralytic ileus gravis often accompanied by numbness, muscle tenderness and t