Nancy, Is that true of a person who is not in need of critical care? Is it true of all critical care patients, or just some. Thanks in advance, JOH
-----Original Message----- From: Nancy Venzon [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 11:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CS>Potassium - Debunking this very irresponsible series of articles I can tell you, as a critical care nurse, just to name 2: Severe cardiac arrhythmia's and death,. It is a drug we are very careful administering as to its great risk of overdose. "M. G. Devour" <[email protected]> wrote: Garnet writes: > I reread this section and he does in fact state that his electrolytes > were never checked "to check for a potassium deficiency". This to me > means they were indeed checked and he perceived that the doctors were > not looking to see if the potassium levels were low. This is too absurd > to entertain as it is one of the MOST basic parameters in a blood panel > besides the cell counts, it is a known indicator of poor cardiac > function and any doctor, even the worst is going to look at the easy > indicators. And asking the author would not reveal the intentions of his > physicians. That is something only the physician would know. Do I remember right that part of his thesis is that the levels of potassium that medicine and science accept as the standard for "normalcy" are in fact much lower th! an they would be if people were getting the appropriate amount in their diets? If you know this, ma'am, could you tell me what would happen if a person consumed considerably more potassium and less sodium than the average person? Would their blood electrolyte levels change significantly? Or does the body control these levels tightly? Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour
