Potassium chloride usually has the functions of treating all kinds of hypokalemia, preventing hypokalemia, treating digitalis poisoning and so on.
1. Treating various kinds of hypokalemia: Potassium is the main element in human body, once the lack of potassium in human body will produce a series of hypokalemia symptoms, which will lead to symptoms such as insufficient eating, vomiting, severe diarrhea, etc. Potassium chloride has the function of treating hypokalemia.
2. Preventing hypokalemia: when patients have chronic diarrhea, low food intake and other symptoms, potassium chloride can be injected intravenously as prescribed by doctor for effective prevention.
3. Treatment of digitalis intoxication: when patients with digitalis intoxication will have hyperkalemia with polygenic premature beats or tachyarrhythmia, they can follow the doctor’s instruction to take injection of potassium chloride to achieve the purpose of treatment of intoxication.
When patients have diarrhea, vomiting, insufficient food and other symptoms, they need to go to the hospital in time for examination, according to the specific causes to target treatment.