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- We have quite a few patients with chronic kidney disease, maybe 60 percent of them test low in serum magnesium and red blood cell magnesium. We then recommend dietary and/or supplemental magnesium and monitor levels. But invariably their nephrologist tells him to stop any intake of magnesium regardless of levels. Can you elaborate on the chronic kidney disease and magnesium connection and what to be cautious of? In all fairness, roughly 30 percent of our chronic kidney disease patients will have high levels of magnesium and we obviously don’t recommend magnesium to them. Are there alternatives to dialysis?
We have quite a few patients with chronic kidney disease, maybe 60 percent of them test low in serum magnesium and red blood cell magnesium. We then recommend dietary and/or supplemental magnesium and monitor levels. But invariably their nephrologist tells him to stop any intake of magnesium regardless of levels. Can you elaborate on the chronic kidney disease and magnesium connection and what to be cautious of? In all fairness, roughly 30 percent of our chronic kidney disease patients will have high levels of magnesium and we obviously don’t recommend magnesium to them. Are there alternatives to dialysis?
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