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WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS SECTION Discontinue immediatly if abdominal pain, distension, nausea, vomiting or gastrointestinal bleeeding occurs. CONTRAINDICATED in the ;presence of dehydration or impaired kidney function. Potassium iantoxication causes electrocardiographic abnormalities, flaccid paraysis of the skeletal muscles, paresthesias of the extremities, listlessness, mental confusion, weakness and heaviness of the legs, fall in blood pressure, cardiac arrhymias. Frequent checks of the clinical status of the patient, and periodic ECG and/or serum potassium levels should be made. Potassium intensifies the symptoms of myotonia congenita.