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Calcium Deficiency Disease
Hypocalcemia, a low bood calcium level, occurs when the concentration of free calcium ions in the blood falls below 4.0 mg/dL (dL=one tenth of a liter).
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Symptoms
Symptoms of severe hypocalcemia include numbness or tingling around the mouth or in the feet and hands, as well as in m...
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Causes
Symptoms of severe hypocalcemia include numbness or tingling around the mouth or in the feet and hands, as well as in m...
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Tests
Hypocalcemia has several causes, and hence a full diagnosis requires assessment of health of the parathyroid gland, kid...
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Treatments
Where low serum magnesium levels occur, concurrently with hypocalcemia, the magnesium deficiency must be corrected to e...
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Drugs
calcium carbonate
calcium chloride
calcium citrate
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Supplements
cholecalciferol
ergocalciferol
vitamin D
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Risk Factors
Alcohol consumption
cimetidine
Hyperphosphatemia
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Complications
The prognosis for correcting hypocalcemia is excellent. However, the eye damage that may result from chronic hypocalcem...
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Prevention
Hypocalcemia resulting from magnesium deficiency tends to occur in chronic alcoholics, and this type of hypocalcemia ca...
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