Lowering blood calcium simply says that the total serum calcium level in the blood decreases a lot. The normal adult calcium level is 4.5 - 5.5 mEq / L. There are many causes for lowering calcium, but the most common is still inadequate eating due to busy, fasting or overeating, due to chronic gastrointestinal disease, those who do not have yeast milk digestion; In addition, some other causes lead to lowering calcium, such as using some diuretics, estrogenic drugs, antihypertensive drugs, magnesium ...; sickle cell disease or other chronic blood diseases; Using lots of coffee also makes the body difficult to absorb calcium ... Symptoms are lowered calcium: muscles slightly twitched, numb feeling, cramps in the hands, feet; psychological instability, irritability, fatigue; tachycardia, shortness of breath. If the calcium is abruptly abnormal and may be a loss of appetite, tremor, and syncope.
The best prevention is to eat enough food, attach importance to calcium-rich foods such as eat small fish whole bone, eat shrimp shell, eggs, milk, ... In the case of hypocalcemia with nausea, diarrhea or irregular sleepiness, fatigue, anorexia, should visit the nearest medical facility to be examined by doctors to find the cause and correct treatment.
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