Hypermagnesemia medical therapy

In mild cases, withdrawing magnesium suppletion is often sufficient. In more severe cases the following treatments are used:

• Intravenous calcium gluconate, because the actions of magnesium in neuromuscular and cardiac function are antagonized by calcium.

Definitive treatment of hypermagnesemia requires increasing renal magnesium excretion through:

• Intravenous diuretics, in the presence of normal renal function
• Dialysis, when kidney function is impaired and the patient is symptomatic from hypermagnesemia

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