Potassium chloride
Also sold as: Slow-K
Prescription neededVitamins and minerals
Comes as:TabletOral solutionDrip (infusion)
Also sold as: Slow-K
Dose is set by your doctor based on blood potassium tests; slow-release tablets of 600 mg (8 mmol) are often taken two to three times a day. Swallow tablets whole with water after food while sitting upright. Infusions are given only in hospital.
Your doctor may give you a different dose. Children's doses depend on weight.
Stop taking it and see a doctor straight away if you notice:
Medicines that can react with this one.
Potassium supplements with an ARB can cause dangerously high potassium.
Potassium supplements with ACE inhibitors can cause dangerously high potassium.
ACE inhibitors raise potassium; adding potassium chloride can cause dangerous high potassium.
Potassium supplements with an ARB can cause dangerously high potassium.
Potassium supplements with ACE inhibitors can cause dangerously high potassium.
Losartan raises potassium; adding potassium chloride can cause dangerous high potassium.
Potassium supplements with ACE inhibitors can cause dangerously high potassium.
Potassium supplements with ACE inhibitors can cause dangerously high potassium.
Both raise potassium; together they can cause dangerous high potassium.
Potassium supplements with an ARB can cause dangerously high potassium.
Potassium supplements with an ARB can cause dangerously high potassium.