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What is Potassium Acid Phosphate?

Ppotassium acid phosphate is an electrolyte supplement used in the treatment of conditions associated with excessive renal phosphate loss or inadequate gastrointestinal absorption of phosphate and to acidify the urine to lower calcium concentrations.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Low potassium (hypokalemia) 1 1 Efficacy_major

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 0
Mild
 0
None
 1

Reported Dosages

  500 mg daily 800 mg daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Taking Potassium Acid Phosphate

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
0
0

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Potassium Acid Phosphate

Always
 1 100%
Usually
 0 0%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Potassium Acid Phosphate

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 0 0%
A little
 1 100%
Not at all
 0 0%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Potassium Acid Phosphate

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 1 100%

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Report created on May 27, 2012.