There are many causes of hypokalemia, mainly: a. Habitual problems 1. overeating, drinking a lot of alcohol 2. having diarrhea, vomiting, and losing potassium through the gastrointestinal tract. 3.Eating too much, too sweet, too salty can make the blood potassium lost with urine or transferred to the cells and hypokalemia. 4. Cold is prone to attack II. Thyroid disease Hyperthyroidism may present with hypokalemic periodic paralysis. III. Familial periodic paralysis IV. Renal potassium loss including renal tubular acidosis, primary aldosteronism, Barrter’s syndrome, Gitelman’s syndrome V. Medication Tachypnea, double grams, Shoubisan and other antihypertensive drugs, licorice and other cough medicines If the life habits are noted or recurrent attacks, you must be hospitalized for detailed examination! The diagnosis process is as follows, click to see a larger image!