Suggestion for oral use of Magnesium Sulphate (powder)

The dose of magnesium sulfate will be different for different patients. Follow your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following information includes only the average doses of magnesium sulfate. If your dose is different, do not change it unless your doctor tells you to do so.

The amount of medicine that you take depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the number of doses you take each day, the time allowed between doses, and the length of time you take the medicine depend on the medical problem for which you are using the medicine.

• For oral dosage form (powder for solution):
  • For constipation:
    • Adults and children 12 years of age and older—2 to 6 level teaspoons per day as a single dose or in 2 divided doses. Dissolve the powder in 8 ounces (oz) of water. If the dose is divided, separate the doses by at least 4 hours. Do not use more than 2 doses per day.
    • Children 6 to 11 years of age—1 to 2 level teaspoons per day as a single dose or in 2 divided doses. Dissolve the powder in 8 ounces (oz) of water. If the dose is divided, separate the doses by at least 4 hours. Do not use more than 2 doses per day.
    • Children younger than 6 years of age—Use is not recommended.

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Zinc in our body

What is meant by zinc deficiency?

Zinc deficiency also known as hypozincemia, is caused by lack of zinc in the diet. It can also be due to other diseases such as liver disease, cystic fibrosis, and even congenital abnormalities. According to WHO, about 31% of the entire population is at risk of zinc deficiency. In fact, zinc deficiency is one of the leading risk factors for disease in developing countries.

In my next few posts, We will focus on the following topics:-

• Importanceof zinc in our body.
• Causes of zinc deficiency.
• Symptoms of zinc deficiency.
• Foods rich in zinc.
• Problems associated with zinc deficiency and how to treat.

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If you are Magnesium Deficient, What you can Do?

As one grows older one should consider a supplement, particularly if one is more than 55 or older and or follow the following tips.

1.Skip Soda, Sweets, Caffeine and Reduce Alcohol Consumption:- 

Avoid dark sodas because they have phosphates that bind with magnesium and allow the mineral to be flushed out without allowing the system time to absorb it for use. Sugar, meanwhile, causes magnesium to be excreted through the kidneys. For that reason, it is best to avoid both sweets and soda if you have concerns about magnesium deficiency.

The Caffeine in coffee and tea causes magnesium to be released through the kidneys because the kidneys act as a magnesium filter and tend to get rid of magnesium when exposed to higher levels of caffeine.

Some diuretics including alcoholic beverages increase of magnesium through the kidneys. Therefore reduce consumption of alcohol and diuretics.

2. Try to Avoid Stress

Avoiding stress is a good idea to help your body process magnesium. Stress causes increased production of adrenaline and cortisol, which have been connected to a decreased level of magnesium.

A surgical procedure and certain medicines causes physical stress and can result in a magnesium deficiency because it results in less magnesium absorbed.

3. Increase stomach acid

Low stomach acid can result from digestive disorders or by taking antacids. It prevents minerals like magnesium from being properly absorbed. Use betaine hydrochloride to raise stomach acid levels and allow magnesium to be absorbed.

4.  Eat healthier foods

Avoid highly processed foods. Find an organic grower that uses magnesium-enhanced fertilizer to condition depleted soil and maximize nutrient content. And, whenever possible, eat raw foods (heated to no more than 110°F) and steam vegetables instead of boiling them to retain nutrients.

5.  Supplement your diet with magnesium.

Look for a sustained-release formula by taking 150 mg of an effective magnesium supplement every day. But if you’re magnesium deficient, you’ll need more — and much more to replenish your deficiency and get your health back.

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How to know if you are Magnesium Deficient?

Magnesium is important to the body. If you are worried you have magnesium deficiency, it is a good time to learn and how to fix it..

• Do you have trouble getting to sleep or staying asleep? Do you suffer from muscle spasms, muscle cramps, facial tics, eye twitches or periods of hyperactivity? Any of these could be a sign your body is not getting enough magnesium.

• Early signs of magnesium deficiency include chronic constipation, headaches and migraines, insulin resistance, PMS, leg cramps, muscle twitches, and more.

• If untreated, a magnesium deficiency can lead to more life-threatening conditions such as heart disease, hypertension, stroke, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, and others.

• This simple assessment can help you determine if you’re magnesium deficient. Alternatively gt tested for magnesium deficiency.

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Is There Specific Treatment for Magnesium Deficiency?

Consult physician. Magnesium deficiency can often be effectively treated with an oral magnesium preparation. It can also be treated by using a nebulizer filled with magnesium sulphate or magnesium chloride dissolved in water. Nebulising has the advantage of taking effect within minutes, relieving muscle pain, tension or breathing difficulties. Nebulizers can be bought without prescription, as can magnesium sulphate and magnesium chloride. For those that require frequent doses, a portable, battery driven nebulizer is useful although more expensive and prone to break down than older style plug in nebulizers.

Endogenous digestive microflora may play a role in the bioavailability of magnesium as they may affect the breakdown of antagonists such as phytate and oxalate in the diet. Other minerals in the diet, such as calcium and zinc, may interact with phytate and oxalate, reducing magnesium loss.

Severe hypomagnesemia is often treated medically with intravenous or intramuscular magnesium sulfate solution, which is completely bioavailable, and effective.

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Causes of magnesium deficiency

Magnesium deficiency may be caused due to

1. Diet.

2. Alcohol abuse.

3. Chronic stress.

4. Poorly controlled diabetes.

5. Excessive or chronic vomiting and/or diarrhea.

6. Phytate or oxalate in the diet may bind magnesium causing it to be eliminated from rather than absorbed in the colon.

7. Certain drugs can deplete magnesium levels such as osmotic diuretics, cisplatin, ciclosporin,amphetamines, and possibly proton pump inhibitors.

8. Also deficiency may occur in Bartter syndrome and Gitelman syndrome.

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How to start Blogging?

Whenever we think to start something new, we expect to be it best. So before Starting, you must know What are you doing.

What is a Blog? 

Blog is a website where a person writes regularly about recent events or topics that interest them, usually with photos and links to other websites that they find interesting. Now-a-days, blogs are becoming more and more popular, not only as a hobby, but also as a source of money. If anyone wants to start a blog having no experience then, choosing the right platform to do so is very difficult. When I started my blog, I too faced many difficulties. So I decided to examine all the popular platforms to decide which one to use. I came to the conclusion that wordpress.org is the best, blogger.com is #2, wordpress.com is #3. All three are free, but have some paid features.

#1. Wordpress.org:

Advantage: It is having lots of free and paid plug-ins which worth a try. Lots of eye-catching themes are there which make you love wordpress.org. It supports all kinds of ads like Google Ad sense, with the help of plug-ins.

Disadvantages: It is a free platform to start blogging, but not free. The major disadvantage is that it is not providing any web hosting. Means, you have to buy your own server and extract wordpress on it. However you may get paid hosting from many providers like Bluehost and you may even get free hosting from many providers.

#2 Blogger.com :

Advantages: It is provided by Google, so it is reliable. It makes it very easy to add Ads, via Google Ad sense. You will get a free sub-domain also.

Disadvantages: There are almost very few plug-ins and not so nice themes. However you may add your own.

#3 Wordpress.com :

Advantages:It is provided by the owners of wordpress.org. You will get a free sub-domain also. It too have a lot of good themes and easy to use wordpress interface. Sponsered posts are allowed to write.

Disadvantages: No ads are allowed and very few plug-ins. Most of the features and beautiful themes are paid and very costly. 

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Signs and symptoms of magnesium deficiency

Symptoms of magnesium deficiency include hyper excitability, muscular symptoms (cramps, tremor,fasciculations, spasms, tetany, weakness), fatigue, loss of appetite, apathy, confusion, insomnia, irritability, poor memory, and reduced ability to learn. Moderate to severe magnesium deficiency can cause tingling or numbness, heart changes, rapid heartbeat, continued muscle contractions, nausea,vomiting, personality changes, delirium, hallucinations, low calcium levels, low serum potassium levels, retention of sodium, low circulating levels of parathyroid hormone (PTH), and potentially death from heart failure. Magnesium plays an important role in carbohydrate metabolism and its deficiency may worsen insulin resistance, a condition that often precedes diabetes, or may be a consequence of insulin resistance.

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Toxicity

In industrial exposures, no ill effects are produced with a twofold increase in serum magnesium, although concurrent increases occur in serum calcium. Inhaled freshly generated magnesium oxide can cause metal fume fever, similar to that caused by zinc oxide. In nonoccupationally exposed individuals, toxicity can occur when magnesium-containing drugs, usually antacids, are ingested chronically by persons with serious renal failure. The toxic effects may progress from nausea and vomiting to hypotension, electrocardiograph abnormalities, central nervous system effects, coma, and systolic cardiac arrest. Magnesium toxicity can sometimes be counteracted with calcium infusion.

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Essentiality and Deficiency

 In the glycol tic cycle, (which is the process in which one glucose molecule is broken down to form two molecules of pyruvic acid) there are seven key enzymes (a substance, produced by all living things, which helps a chemical change happen or happen more quickly, without being changed itself) that require divalent magnesium. Magnesium-containing enzymes are also involved in the citric acid cycle and in beta oxidation of fatty acids. Deficiency may occur as a complication of various disease states such as malabsorption syndromes (refers to a number of disorders in which the intestine can't adequately absorb certain nutrients into the bloodstream), renal dysfunction (Kidney failure), and endocrine disorders. Magnesium deficiency in humans causes neuromuscular irritability, frank tetany, and even convulsions. Magnesium deficiency induces an inflammatory syndrome, and is a risk factor for diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and ischemic heart diseases. Supplementation of magnesium, either by intravenous or oral administration, is beneficial.

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Foods that contain Magnesium and its usefulness

Magnesium is an essential mineral required by the body for maintaining normal muscle and nerve function, keeping a healthy immune system, maintaining heart rhythm, and building strong bones. Magnesium is also involved in at least 300 biochemical reactions in the body. A deficiency in magnesium can lead to muscle spasms, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, anxiety disorders, migraines, osteoporosis, and cerebral infarction. High magnesium foods include dark leafy greens, nuts, seeds, fish, beans, whole grains, avocados, yogurt, bananas, dried fruit, dark chocolate, and more. The current recommended daily value ( D.V. ) for magnesium is 400 mg. Conversely, consuming too much magnesium typically causes diarrhea as the body attempts to excrete the excess.

Some of the food rich in magnesium include:-

1: Nuts and Seeds (Squash and Pumpkin Seeds)

Magnesium in 100g	1/2 Cup (59g)	1 Ounce (28g)
534mg (134% DV)	325mg (81% DV)	150mg (37% DV)

2: Dried Fruit (Figs)

Magnesium in 100g	1/2 Cup (75g)	1 Fig (8g)
68mg (17% DV)	51mg (13% DV)	5mg (1% DV)

3: Dark Leafy Greens (Raw )

Magnesium in 100g	1 Cup Raw (30g)	1 Cup Cooked (180g)
79mg (20% DV)	24mg (6% DV)	157mg (39% DV)

4: Beans and Lentils (Soy Beans)

Magnesium in 100g	1 Cup Cooked (172g)
86mg (22% DV)	148mg (37% DV)

5: Whole Grains (Brown Rice)

Magnesium in 100g	1 Cup Cooked (195g)
44mg (11% DV)	86mg (21% DV)

 

6: Dark Chocolate

Magnesium in 100g	1 Square (29g)	1 Cup Grated (132g)
327mg (82% DV)	95mg (24% DV)	432mg (108% DV)

 

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Magnesium

Whenever we talk about magnesium, first thing which clicks in our mind is that, it is a chemical element. Magnesium is a light, silver-white metal that burns with a bright white flame. But very less people know the need of magnesium in our body. So, I will try to throw light upon magnesium`s importance in my few posts:-

• Foods that contain Magnesium and its usefulness

• Essentiality and Deficiency

• Toxicity

• Signs and symptoms of magnesium deficiency

• Causes of deficiency.

• Is There Specific Treatment for Magnesium Deficiency?

• How to know if you are Magnesium Deficient? 

• If you are Magnesium Deficient, What you can Do?
• Suggestion for oral use of Magnesium Sulphate (powder).

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