Hypophosphatemia medical therapy

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Standard intravenous preparations of potassium phosphate are available and are routinely used in malnurished patients and alcoholics. Oral supplementation also is useful where no intravenous treatment is available. Historically one of the first demonstrations of this was in concentration camp victims who died soon after being re-fed: it was observed that those given milk (high in phosphate) had a higher survival rate than those who did not get milk.

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