Towerx Effervescent Potassium

Towerx Effervescent Potassium

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Side Effects & Adverse Reactions

WARNINGS:  The administration of potassium salts can produce hyperkalemia and cardiac arrest in patients with impaired mechanisms for potassium excretion.  These reactions most commonly occur in patients receiving potassium intravenously, but may also occur in patients receiving oral potassium.  Potentially fatal hyperkalemia can develop quickly and be asymptomatic.  Patients using potassium salts with chronic renal disease, or any other condition which impairs the excretion of potassium, require especially careful monitoring of serum potassium concentration and appropriate adjustment of dosage.

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Uses

INDICATIONS AN USAGE:
1. For therapeutic use in patients with hypokalemia with or without metabolic alkalosis; in digitalis intoxication and in patients with hypokalemic familial
    periodic paralysis.
2. For prevention of potassium depletion when the dietary intake of potassium is inadequate in the following conditions; patients receiving digitalis and
    diuretics for congestive heart failure; hepatic cirrhosis with ascites; states of aldosterone excess with normal renal function; potassium-losing
    nephropathy, and certain diarrheal states.
3. The use of potassium salts in patients receiving diuretics for uncomplicated essential hypertension is often unnecessary when such patients have a
    normal dietary pattern.  Serum potassium should be checked periodically, however, and, if hypokalemia occurs, dietary supplementation with
    potassium-containing foods may be adequate to control milder cases.  In more severe cases supplementation with potassium salts may be
    indicated.

History

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Other Information


DESCRIPTION: An oral potassium supplement.  Each effervescent tablet in solution provides 25 mEq of potassium as supplied by 2.4g potassium bicarbonate with 1.4g Citric Acid, FD and C Yellow #6 Dye, FD and C Yellow #6 Lake,  Natural Orange Flavor, Polyethylene Glycol, Saccharin, Sodium Benzoate, and Sorbitol.

Towerx Effervescent Potassium Manufacturers


  • Tower Laboratories Ltd
    Towerx Effervescent Potassium (Potassium Bicarbonate) Tablet, Effervescent [Tower Laboratories Ltd]

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