Dextrose 50% side effects by duration, gender and age - a phase IV clinical study of FDA data

< 1 month:

1. Hyperkalaemia (damage to or disease of the kidney)
2. Hypokalaemia (low potassium)
3. Septic shock (shock due to blood infection)

1 - 6 months:

n/a

6 - 12 months:

n/a

1 - 2 years:

n/a

2 - 5 years:

n/a

5 - 10 years:

n/a

10+ years:

n/a

not specified:

1. Anxiety
2. Aphasia (damage to the parts of the brain that control language)
3. Asthenia (weakness)
4. Blindness
5. Blood creatinine increased
6. Blood magnesium decreased
7. Blood pressure decreased
8. Bradycardia (abnormally slow heart action)
9. Cryptococcal fungaemia (presence of fungi or yeasts in the blood)
10. Death

female:

1. Blood bicarbonate decreased
2. Abdominal discomfort
3. Anion gap increased
4. Anxiety
5. Asthenia (weakness)
6. Blood pressure decreased
7. Bradycardia (abnormally slow heart action)
8. Diabetic ketoacidosis (diabetic ketoacidosis (dka) is high concentrations of ketone bodies)
9. Dysarthria (speech disorder)
10. Pain

male:

1. Abdominal distension
2. Drug administration error
3. Extravasation (leakage of a fluid)
4. Gastrointestinal haemorrhage (bleeding gastrointestinal tract)
5. Hyperkalaemia (damage to or disease of the kidney)
6. Pneumonia
7. Acute myeloid leukaemia (acute cancer in which the bone marrow makes abnormal myeloblasts)
8. Alanine aminotransferase increased
9. Aphasia (damage to the parts of the brain that control language)
10. Blindness

0-1:

n/a

2-9:

n/a

10-19:

n/a

20-29:

1. Anion gap increased

30-39:

1. Blood bicarbonate decreased
2. Diabetic ketoacidosis (diabetic ketoacidosis (dka) is high concentrations of ketone bodies)
3. Gastrointestinal haemorrhage (bleeding gastrointestinal tract)

40-49:

1. Blood pressure decreased
2. Drug administration error
3. Dysarthria (speech disorder)
4. Pain

50-59:

1. Anxiety
2. Blood magnesium decreased

60+:

1. Blood creatinine increased
2. Bradycardia (abnormally slow heart action)
3. Cryptococcal fungaemia (presence of fungi or yeasts in the blood)
4. Drug administration error
5. Extravasation (leakage of a fluid)
6. Hyperkalaemia (damage to or disease of the kidney)
7. Pneumonia
8. Urosepsis (secondary infection that occurs when a urinary tract infection spreads to the bloodstream)
9. Abdominal distension
10. Alanine aminotransferase increased