Question

how does dehydration results to high potassium level

Answer 1

Normal values of serum potassium in our human body is usually in between that of 3.7 to about 5.2 mEq/L for an adults individual . so hyperkalemia is the condition where the High level of pottasium occur in our human blood .

In dehydration results in the reduction in the amount of fluid in our human body and the main cause are vomiting, diarrhea etc . This will result in the increase in the pottasium level in our blood as when the fluid Decrease the pottasium in that region will not decrease . So the amount of pottasium that is found in that reduced amount of blood volume will turn out to be high that is the volume of pottasium will be High

That is the pottasium excretion in dehydration is reduced and the movement of fluid will occur from ICF to ECF as well as pottasium movement also will occur . This will increase the Meq of pottasium per liter of ECF