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IBCC Episode 67 - Hypokalemia

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What Is the Best Solution for Ivy Potassium?

If you give ivy potassium, it may jack up your syrum level potentially too high. If you give some oral potassium, it will cause a more gentle rise and more of that will actually get into the cells. Citrate is essentially going to be metapolized into bicarbonate in the body so it's essentially like an alkali form of potassium. The slow release formulations may be a bit better tolerated as far as nausea and vomiting what's your experience been with that? Is there anything great i could find on it?"

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