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A continuous chemical reaction takes place in the human body, thanks to which we breathe, walk, speak, digest food, and think. Disruptions in this chemistry can cause seizures. What can they talk about?
Let's start with risk groups. These include pregnant women, people with drug addiction and alcoholism, people with metabolic disorders, hypoglycemia, diabetes. Convulsions also occur with disorders in the work of the thyroid gland. People who experience serious physical exertion can suffer from them. As a separate group, you can add people suffering from hypertension and lovers of diuretics.
Why are all these people at risk and why is chemistry involved? The exchange of sodium, magnesium and potassium ions is involved in ensuring the normal functioning of human muscles.
How does it work? It also contains calcium, but let's not complicate it. Sodium provides the resting potential, potassium stimulates the excitation of cells, and magnesium is involved in the change of excitation to rest. Everything is simple and works like clockwork. But if one of the trace elements is missing, failures occur. These failures most often lead to seizures.
Most often, this occurs due to a lack of potassium, the potassium-sodium balance is disturbed. This happens in connection with a violation of the assimilation of potassium or, much more often, with its active washing out of the body. Most high blood pressure medications that have a diuretic effect, some other medications, and alcohol contribute to flushing.
If this is the reason, try to increase the intake of foods containing potassium or take medical preparations. During pregnancy, the doctor you are seeing will give you recommendations. If the cause of night cramps is not clear, consult a specialist. Perhaps these are symptoms of one of the metabolic disorders.
