ORS B Plus Adverse Reactions

Hypernatraemia is characteristic of excessive (sodium) administration, including the overfeeding or inappropriate feeding of infants, in brain injury and acute water loss.
Symptoms of hypernatraemia may include restlessness, weakness, thirst, reduced salivation and lachrymation, swollen tongue, flushing of the skin, pyrexia, dizziness, headache, oliguria, hypotension, tachycardia, delirium, hyperpnoea and respiratory arrest.
Retention of sodium and water-isotonic retention or iso-osmotic, expansion because the plasma concentration is unchanged - leads to the accumulation of extracellular fluid (oedema). This may affect the cerebral, pulmonary or peripheral circulation.
The toxicity of potassium salts given by mouth in healthy individuals is slight, since potassium is rapidly excreted in the urine. With some salts such as potassium chloride, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal cramps may occur. Hyperkalaemia may occur after excessive intake (including the excessive transfusion of stored blood); after the use of potassium-sparing diuretics; in adrenal cortical insufficiency, renal failure and acidosis, and after tissue trauma. Symptoms include paraesthesia of the extremities, listlessness, mental confusion, weakness, paralysis, hypotension, cardiac arrhythmias, heart block and cardiac arrest.
Concentrated glucose solutions given by mouth may cause nausea and vomiting