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Disease Information for Magnesium deficiency
- Clinical Manifestations
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- Acute bilateral Hand muscle spasms
- Cramping in Extremities
- Weak/Weak as a kitten (symptom)
- Weakness/Diffuse motor loss
- Enervated/extreme acute fatigue
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- Weakness non-neuromuscular/systemic
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- Abnormal Lab Findings - Decreased
- Calcium, serum (Lab)
- Magnesium (Lab)
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- Magnesium (Lab)
- Phosphate Serum (Lab)
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A nutritional condition produced by a deficiency of magnesium in the diet, characterized by anorexia, nausea, vomiting, lethargy, and weakness. Symptoms are paresthesias, muscle cramps, irritability, decreased attention span, and mental confusion, possibly requiring months to appear. Deficiency of body magnesium can exist even when serum values are normal. In addition, magnesium deficiency may be organ-selective, since certain tissues become deficient before others. (Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 12th ed, p1936)
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