Potassium levels

Anybody know the recommended limits of Potassium in blood tests?

If I remember correctly it is.....3.5 -5.0...... At the time I was
experiencing low potassium...sometimes as low as 2.3-2.4...I was always
asked if I was having any chest pains at that point......I was taking 6-7
K-Dur a day. They finally found an adrenal tumor and removed the gland....I
now have "Normal" levels


"Peter C" <petercy@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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Anybody know the recommended limits of Potassium in blood tests?

On 3/27/08 6:19 PM, in article rIXGj.27139$%N1.938@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net,
"Peter C" <petercy@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> Anybody know the recommended limits of Potassium in blood tests?
>
>
The range shown on my lab reports shows 3.5 to 5.0 mmol/L

Hope this helps.

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On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:39:14 -0700, "jacquie"
<happikat694@earthlink.net> wrote:

>If I remember correctly it is.....3.5 -5.0...... At the time I was
>experiencing low potassium...sometimes as low as 2.3-2.4...I was always
>asked if I was having any chest pains at that point......I was taking 6-7
>K-Dur a day. They finally found an adrenal tumor and removed the gland....I
>now have "Normal" levels
>
>
>"Peter C" <petercy@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:rIXGj.27139$%N1.938@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net...
>Anybody know the recommended limits of Potassium in blood tests?
>
I think it is best to go to a search tool like MSN and enter
potassium levels. Then look at hits and read for a while.

I know I need more than a level, but the background information

I get so many different numbers from the many blood tests.



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Thanks Jacquie,
My latest was 4.2 without a reference range given.
Potassium is important in heart health since it carries the electrical
charge in the heart beat.
Lisinopril can cause an increase in Potassiummy resulting in palpitations.
When I started on Lisinopril about six or seven years ago I had a raise
level of K and several blood tests but it lowered itself.
4.2 might be creeping up again so I will see about changing the Lisinopril
possibly - After checking my potassium levels since dx in 1992.
"jacquie" <happikat694@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> If I remember correctly it is.....3.5 -5.0...... At the time I was
> experiencing low potassium...sometimes as low as 2.3-2.4...I was always
> asked if I was having any chest pains at that point......I was taking 6-7
> K-Dur a day. They finally found an adrenal tumor and removed the
> gland....I
> now have "Normal" levels
>
>
> "Peter C" <petercy@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:rIXGj.27139$%N1.938@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net...
> Anybody know the recommended limits of Potassium in blood tests?
>
>
>

Thanks Martha.

On Mar 28, 7:07*am, "Peter C" <pete...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Thanks Martha.

3.5-5.0 is our reference range for adults. <=3.0 and >=. 6.5 are
considered "critical" results and must be repeated and phoned to the
ordering floor/ doc. Reference range slightly higher for infants, and
specimens which are hemolysed ( difficult veinupuncture resulting in
red cell destruction) will falsely elevate the results as the level of
K inside the red cell is much higher.

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:19:19 GMT, "Peter C" <petercy@hotmail.co.uk>
wrote:

>Anybody know the recommended limits of Potassium in blood tests?
>

http://www.labtestsonline.org/unders...um/glance.html

http://www.labtestsonline.org.uk/und...um/glance.html

Strange, those are the two sites I find most useful but they *don't"
give the reference ranges for potassium

Everyone else has nailed it according to the other sources I also
found, 3.5 - 5

so you're "normal"

what does your calcium look like?

"Peter C" <petercy@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Anybody know the recommended limits of Potassium in blood tests?

My lab sends a copy to their patients as well as their docs. Looking at my
last one it shows a reference range of 3.5 - 5.5 mmol/L. HTH.

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"Peter C" <petercy@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Anybody know the recommended limits of Potassium in blood tests?
>
>

I just had some blood work done. The reference range for potassium that is
shown on the lab report I received is 3,5-5.3 mmol/L. (Some readings have
different reference ranges in different laboratories. I don't know if that
is true of potassium, or not.)

MaryL