What happens if one consumes too much calcium?!
Question: minerals and vitamins are useful, but not when we consume too much. what if someone consumes too much calcium every day? what damage can be done?
Answers: minerals and vitamins are useful, but not when we consume too much. what if someone consumes too much calcium every day? what damage can be done?
Too much calcium can turn into calcium stones in the kidneys.
Having too much calcium in your bloodstream can have symptoms which include - tiredness, loss of appetite, vomiting and diarrhea leading to dehydration and thirst.
An irregular heart beat can be a factor as can low blood pressure. In the most severe situations, patients affected by high blood serum calcium levels can become very confused, and at worst may experience fits and loss of consciousness.
Too much calcium can sometimes be a result of taking too much in the diet. This doesn't tend to happen very often, but I can recall a small number of patients over the last 20 years in whom this was the case.
Drinking too much milk (several pints a day) or having an excessive amount of antacid medicines containing calcium can tip the balance. Chronic kidney disease may result in an imbalance, as may inactivity, e.g. due to prolonged bed rest, and repeated blood transfusions under certain circumstances. In the case of dietary indiscretion or imbibing of excessive stomach medicines the answer is to try and eat a more balanced diet that doesn't upset the stomach.
Occasionally the calcium levels increase if there is a malfunction of the parathyroid glands leading to their overactivity. Any cause of multiple fractures and a relatively rare primary cancer of the bone marrow - multiple myeloma can also be the guilty party to a high calcium level.
Your kidneys play a key role in balancing the amount of calcium and phosphorus in your blood. As kidney function declines, the body is unable to get rid of calcium it absorbs that is not used by the bones. The failing kidney also has difficulty eliminating excess phosphorus from the blood. When calcium and phosphorus are not in balance, serious health problems can result:
High phosphorus levels in the blood can cause bones to lose calcium. This makes the bones weak and brittle.
The extra phosphorus and calcium join to form hard deposits in the soft tissues of the body, known as calcifications.
Calcifications can occur in your blood vessels and block the flow of blood.
Calcifications can lead to heart disease, lung disease and painful joints.
If you overdose on calcium supplementation, all you really do is increase urinary calcium excretion
When one consumes a large amount of vitamin A it can be toxic to adults as well as children. Over intake of vitamin a causes headache,nausea, vomiting,drowsiness,loss of appetite,painful joints,liver enlargement,bleeding of lips, loss of hair,etc.
This happens because vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin and so gets stored in the body(unlike a water-soluble vitamin which does not get stored in the body).So excess consumption can be harmful for the body.
Hopes this helps!!!!
too much calcium every day is more dangerious than just acute or succidal trial this may cause renal stones arrythemia and microulceration of stomach and bone disease (abnormal calcification)