Adverse Event Profile: Potassium

Source: FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) Adverse Event Reporting System Total Events: 36 Serious Events: 14 Date Range: 20081104 to 20250422

Top Reported Reactions

  • CHOKING: 4
  • SWOLLEN TONGUE: 3
  • HYPERSENSITIVITY: 2
  • Pulmonary embolism: 2
  • DYSPNOEA: 2
  • FALL: 2
  • BLOOD PRESSURE INCREASED: 2
  • Foreign body: 2
  • Blood pressure increased: 2
  • Diarrhoea: 2
  • Dyspnoea: 2
  • ASTHENIA: 2
  • DIZZINESS: 2
  • APHASIA: 1
  • LIP SWELLING: 1
  • SWELLING FACE: 1
  • DYSPHAGIA: 1
  • COLONOSCOPY ABNORMAL: 1
  • DIVERTICULUM: 1
  • ENDOSCOPY GASTROINTESTINAL ABNORMAL: 1

Outcomes

  • Other Serious or Important Medical Event: 23
  • Hospitalization: 11
  • Visited Emergency Room: 7
  • Visited a Health Care Provider: 7
  • Other Serious Outcome: 5
  • Other Outcome: 3
  • Life Threatening: 2
  • Disability: 1

Products Involved (15 unique)

  • ACESULFAME POTASSIUM
  • CVS HEALTH POTASSIUM GLUCONATE
  • MICRO K (POTASSIUM CHLORIDE)
  • Nature Made potassium
  • POTASSIUM
  • POTASSIUM (POTASSIUM [POTASSIUM])
  • POTASSIUM CHLORIDE
  • POTASSIUM GLUCONATE
  • POTASSIUM LIQUID
  • POTASSIUM SUPPLEMENT
  • PURITAN'S PRIDE POTASSIUM
  • PURITANS PRIDE POTASSIUM
  • Potassium
  • Potassium Gluconate
  • potassium

Disclaimer

This data is from the FDA CAERS database. A report does not mean the supplement caused the adverse event. Reports may be incomplete, duplicated, or unrelated. This is for safety awareness only.