Periodic hyperkalemia in children

Periodic paralysis is a group of metabolic diseases related to potassium ion metabolism, with repetitive, self-limiting flaccid paralysis or weakness of skeletal muscle that lasts for several hours to weeks, and the interval between attacks is completely normal. Clinical characteristics of the disease. According to the changes of serum potassium during its onset, it can be divided into three types of hypokalemia, hyperkalemia and normal potassium. The disease is autosomal dominant. Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis is also known as adynamia episodica hereditaria.