10 Potassium Deficiency Symptoms
Reviewed: Dr. Gromatzky
Symptom #8: Flaccid Paralysis
Flaccid paralysis is a muscle condition where there is weakness, reduced muscle tone, or paralysis without obvious causes such as trauma. It may be caused by diseases or injuries that affect the nerves. If the nerves supplying a muscle group are severed, those muscles will exhibit flaccid paralysis.
Flaccid paralysis can be fatal if it affects the muscles of respiration, causing an inability to breathe and death from suffocation. Flaccid paralysis can be caused by polio, botulism, curare, lower motor neuron lesions, hypokalemia, neurotoxic venoms, nerve agents, and more.
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