Hypercalcemia
Disease information
Hypercalcemia
Although the
calcium
constitutes one of the main elements that circulate around the body, if it exceeds the required amount or it diminishes it, causes diverse
problems
in the
health
.
Around 99% of the total of
calcium
it is concentrated in the bones and the rest acts as diverse that help the sanguineous coagulation, in the neuronal transmission, the
muscular
contraction and in the contractions of the heart.
When the
calcium
levels in the body rise,
a
problem
known like hipercalcemia takes place that alters all the
functions
of the organism.
One of the main causes of hipercalcemia is the
tumors
and the exaggerated
function
of the paratiroides glands, whose cause is not known.
Also the
calcium
carbonate or some diuréticos is caused by the consumption of some medicines like. This also is suffered by people from hipertiroidismo or acute renal insufficiency.
The manifestations of hipercalcemia vary depending on the
calcium
level that there is in his sanguineous torrent and the effects can be from asintomáticos, is to say that any symptom is not pronounced, until causing
a
comma state, when the levels too much are elevated, which causes that the kidneys do not work suitably and the brain is affected in its main
functions
.
When the increase of
calcium
is fast and intense it causes
hypertension
, upheavals in the conduction of the
nervous
impulses at
cardiac
level and can get to also cause pancreatitis and peptic ulcer, in addition to the renal damage, this because the
calcium
begins to deposit in different parts the body like the skin, the heart, the lungs, the kidneys and the
stomach
among others.
When the
disease
is slight can be caused the elimination of
calcium
by means of tinkles it, administering to serum and diuréticos.
The hemodiálisis is
a
procedure used in difficult cases, when the kidneys do not work suitably.
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