There are many reasons leading to hypokalemia, such as insufficient intake and excessive excretion.
1. Inadequate intake: unbalanced diet, picky eating or digestive tract obstruction, long-term anorexia, partiality and fasting will affect potassium intake, thus leading to low blood potassium.
2. Excessive excretion: for example, a large amount of vomiting and diarrhea caused by various reasons will result in too much potassium ions being excreted from the digestive tract. In addition, renal diseases, endocrine diseases, or medication factors, as well as excessive sweating caused by stimulation of the external environmental temperature, or extensive burns on the skin, will also result in excessive excretion of potassium ions, which will cause the phenomenon of low blood potassium.
Low blood potassium should go to the hospital in time for examination to clarify the cause of the disease, and treat the cause of the disease, and at the same time, actively replenish potassium.