I've come across a few patients who on routine testing of UE's for follow
up of hypertension seem to have lowish serum sodiums. No obvious reason for
this, so I'm wondering about a side-efect of medication. In particular a
couple of them are on amlodipine and not much else (the one I have in mind
at the moment is on only amlodipine and timoptol eye drops).
There is no reference in the data sheet to amlodipine causing this. But I
wonder whether anyone else has had similar observations?
--
Simon Child
www.GPUK.net
www.woodbanksurgery.nhs.uk
|