Consequences of diarrhea include all of the following except?

Question

the choices we are given are:

a. acidosis

b. decreased bicarbonate

c. electrolyte imbalance

d. hyperkalemia

Answer 1

To answer this, you need to know which electrolytes are present in high concentrations in diarrheal fluids.

Since I can't find a decent website to summarize it for you, I'll just tell you, diarrheal fluids are usually high in potassium, bicarbonate, and low in acidity.  So losing those will lead to....

(Sorry, if I go any further I'd be doing your homework for you.)

Hint:  You can also look under "Possible complications" of diarrhea:

http://www.rxmed.com/b.main/b1.illness/b...

Good luck.