Side Effects of Magnesium Sulfate Injection

Side effects of Magnesium Sulfate Injection include flushing, sweating, dry mouth, nausea, vomiting, panic, and dizziness, the occurrence of which varies from person to person.
Magnesium Sulfate Injection can reduce or release muscle contraction and diastole vascular smooth muscle, and is suitable for use in the treatment of pregnancy hypertension, pre-eclampsia and eclampsia. It should be contraindicated in nursing women, patients with myocardial damage, and heart block.
Intravenous injection of magnesium sulfate can often cause sweating, dry mouth, flushing and other symptoms, while rapid intravenous injection can cause panic, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, individual patients will also appear nystagmus, generally slow down the injection rate after the above symptoms can disappear. There are also patients who will cause constipation and paralytic intestinal obstruction after continuous use of the drug, and will get better after stopping the drug.
In renal insufficiency, if the dosage is large, blood magnesium accumulation may occur, resulting in muscle excitability inhibition and loss of knee tendon reflexes, sensory response, respiratory depression, or even respiratory arrest and cardiac arrhythmia, cardiac conduction block, cardiac arrest.
Pregnant women using the drug can cause neonatal hypermagnesemia (manifested by poor sucking, inactivity, low muscle tone, cry, respiratory depression phenomenon), and a small number of pregnant women develop pulmonary edema. In addition, the user may experience adverse reactions such as hypocalcemia, rash, hypotension, and shock.
The occurrence of these side effects varies from person to person. Specific use of the drug should be carried out under the guidance of a specialist, and should not be used without authorization.