Do diet sodas also cause hypokalemia?
A story in Alternative Health Journal stated that a study revealed that cola – no mention of whether it was diet or not – could cause this problem, yes. However, in the article that I linked, the participants who had this problem were drinking at least THREE liters of cola every day. Of course, the two women who were getting quite a bit of attention in this study were also pregnant, if that means anything. Their conditions improved when they stopped chugging soda like it was about to be outlawed. Here’s a study by NIH that found similar things. One of the males who had this condition was consuming FOUR LITERS of cola per day. However, this study doesn’t mention whether the cola was of the diet variety or not. That NIH study goes on to explain that the problem is the high fructose content in sodas. So, if diet soda does not contain fructose, it apparently isn’t a problem. That bit about diet soda, by the way, is what I inferred, not something that the article directly stated.
