Re: Diabetes and Potassium?

On Jan 25, 4:06 pm, "kumar" <lordshiva5...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,

Indiabetes, potassium may fall after you take insulin, particularly if
yourdiabeteshad been out of control for a while. Low potassium is
commonly due to "water pills" (diuretics).

"INSULIN Actions on cellular and metabolic level
Increased potassium uptake - forces cells to absorb serum potassium;
lack of insulin inhibits absorption.
Arterial muscle tone - forces arterial wall muscle to relax,
increasing blood flow, especially in micro arteries; lack of insulin
reduces flow by allowing these muscles to contract.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin";

"Bulimia
chem-20 may show an electrolyte imbalance (such as hypokalemia) or
dehydration.http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000341.htm";

Potassium instabilties/imbalances looks to be related todiabetes.
Increased efflux of Potassium in extracellular compartment due to
hyperglycemia and its excretion in urine, looks to be possible. Losing
more Potassium due to polyuria can also be thought. It also looks
defficieny of potassium may stimulate binge eationg..common in
diabetics.

As such, can there be some defficiency of potassium in diabetics2 esp.
in uncontrolled people pre-renal damages) and can it stimulate
excessive intake of food or binge eating resulting into overeatings?

Best wishes.

Dear kumar
I ran into your message quite accidentally while researching about
some details on 'Diabetes' and thought of sharing some of my findings.
I've read at
http://www.medical-health-care-information.com/Health-living/Diabetes/index.asp
that 'Diabetes is a set of related diseases in which the body cannot
regulate the amount of sugar (glucose) in the blood.
In diabetes, glucose in the blood cannot move into cells, and it stays
in the blood. This not only harms the cells that need the glucose for
fuel, but also harms certain organs and tissues exposed to the high
glucose levels'.

I hope the above is of some help to you as well.

.

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