what the diffrent between hypokalaemia and hyperkalamia?

Answer 1

Hypokalemia is not enough potassium in the blood and hyperkalemia is too much potassium. Either condition will have an effect on how your heart pumps.

Answer 2

"Hyperkalemia" is an elevated blood level (above 5.0 mmol/L) of the electrolyte potassium. The prefix hyper- means high (contrast with hypo-, meaning low). The middle kal refers to kalium, which is Latin for potassium.

Symptoms are fairly nonspecific, and generally include malaise, palpitations and muscle weakness; mild breathlessness may indicate metabolic acidosis, one of the settings in which hyperkalemia may occur. Often, however, the problem is detected during screening blood tests for a medical disorder, or it only comes to medical attention after complications have developed, such as cardiac arrhythmia or sudden death.

"Hypokalemia" is a potentially fatal condition in which the body fails to retain sufficient potassium to maintain healthtypically resulting from diarrhea, increased diuresis and vomiting

Muscle weakness and myalgia
Increased risk of hyponatremia with resultant confusion and seizures .ECG abnormalities, decreased reflex response and (in severe cases) respiratory paralysis, alkalosis and arrhythmia

Answer 3

Normal concentration of potassium ion is between 3.5 to 5 millimols per litter. Values of potassium ion concentration in the blood above this rang - Hyper kalemia & below this range is hypokalemia

Answer 4

you can understand by name, hypo means deficient or below normal and hyper means excessive, And kalemia is the presence of potassium in blood. So simply hypokalemia is the condition when blood potassium level get lower than normal body condition and hyperkalemia is condion when blood potassium level get increase than normal body state.

Answer 5

Go back and study your Greek roots.