Talk:Hypocalcemia/Archive 1

Ampoule?
This article specifies that emergency treatment is the administration of two "ampoules" of calcium. How much calcium is there in an ampoule??

--Denis Hudon

Depo-Provera
I've heard that Depo-Provera use can lead to calcium deficiency, and bone loss is listed as a side-effect on it's wiki page. can someone please look into this and add to this atricle as appropriate? Thanks. --81.96.168.182 (talk) 00:49, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

"[S]urgical removal MCC of hypoparathyroidism"?
What does "surgical removal MCC of hypoparathyroidism" mean? Urgos (talk) 02:56, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Move to Hypocalcemia?
Seems like the much more common name on Google (1.3 million to 0.3 million). Also, even on Wiki is more common.

TCO (talk) 23:12, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Retain existing, per guidelines. Peter Grey (talk) 13:53, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Veterinary medicine
Why is hypocalcemia in cows on this page? Not that I have anything against animal medicine, but it seems very out of place. Princeton wu (talk) 01:24, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Water fluoridation and exposure to hydrofluoric acid
Isn't water fluoridation a source of hydrofluoric acid which could lead to hypocalcaemia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.61.176.89 (talk) 22:58, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Disruptive edits/concensus
The following edits decrease the quality of the article, and introduce poor sources, images that have nothing to do with the article and are generally of low quality:. Do not reintroduce without discussion. -- CFCF  🍌 (email) 15:30, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
 * eventually we need to do this article and Fat embolism :-)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:26, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

image
Doc James actually I always try to fit the image in each section however I understand your point--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:01, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Ah okay. All depends on screen width. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 21:37, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Out of date statistic
The claim that 18% of hospital patients have hypocælcemia is based on a decade-old study published in the BMJ, and may well not reflect current prevalence. I'm not sure why my recent edits regarding this keep being reverted, so I'm inviting other editors to discuss the matter here. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 13:02, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Please read WP:MEDMOS. We use people not patient.
 * Do you have a more recent review that discusses rates?
 * This is not a major area of research and thus it is not surprising that the review is from 2008.
 * We do not need to start every sentence with the year the source is from. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 17:26, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree that, as a general rule, "people" is infinitely preferable to "patients": however, the sentence as it currently stands suggests that 18% of all the people in hospitals have the condition. To me, this is ambiguous, as it's unclear whether it refers to staff, visitors etc. Is there a way we can re-word the sentence to remove this ambiguity - "people being treated in hospital" for example? If you think I'm being unnecessarily pedantic, I'm happy to be overruled. As regards the qualifying statement regarding the fact that these data are from 2008, I don't feel that there's anything to be lost by clarifying when the information was collated, but again, if others feel that this detracts from the article, I'm not going to put up a fight. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 19:31, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Sure adjusted the first per your suggestion.  Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 23:24, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks - the sentence is now crystal clear. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 10:16, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Zinc causes rapid hypocalcemia?
I haven't found any sources to corroborate the statement that supplementation with zinc causes "rapid hypocalcemia". I propose to remove the statement. I even asked a question on Health Stack Exchange. -- C opper K ettle  10:35, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
 * if there is no MEDRS source, then please trim--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:16, 1 December 2018 (UTC)