When a person has major burns, there is a resultant damage
to the intravascular volume and it is decreased in both the damaged tissue as well as
surrounding areas. This is caused due to increased permeability, changes in interstitial
osmotic pressure in burn tissue and cellular edema. This leads to an imbalance of all
the necessary minerals in the body and can prove lethal if not treated
appropriately.
A decrease in sodium level or hyponatraema ,
decrease in potassium or hypokalaemia, imbalance of magnesium or hypomagnesaemia,
decrease in calcium ions or hypocalcaemia and altered phosphate ion levels or
Hypophosphataemia can cause heart failure, seizures, muscle spasms, renal and metabolic
failure, damage to the bones, and many other problems associated with a lack of proper
ion balance in the body.
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