10 Magnesium Deficiency Symptoms
Symptom #5: Irregular Heartbeat
Irregular heartbeat, or heart arrhythmia, is a serious symptom of low magnesium in the body. The heart is composed of muscle tissue whose proper functioning requires adequate levels of magnesium and potassium.
Low magnesium leads to low potassium levels, which affects normal heart rhythm. While in most cases, arrhythmia is a mild condition, if it goes on without treatment it may lead to heart failure or stroke. Heart arrhythmia can present in several ways, including missed heartbeats or heart palpitations, chest pain, light-headedness, and fainting. Magnesium injections are sometimes used to treat arrhythmia 2https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10672134.
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