Does immobility lead to both HYPO and HYPERcalcemia?
We had a discrepancy on whether prolonged bed rest led to hypo or hyper calcemia. Several fellow students researched it and we are still getting conflicting info. I’m thinking immobility causes bone resorption because weight bearing is not occuring the bone is thinking “hey, we don’t need all this calcium, let’s dump it into the blood stream”….causing hypercalcemia. However, some texts say it causes hypocalcemia. I can rationalize this because perhaps after an extended period of immobility, the bone no longer has much calcium to “dump”, thus the hypocalcemia. Am I way off base on this thinking? I’ve checked several texts, a friend even asked her veterinarian and he didn’t have a straight answer. Our instructor didn’t even know! Can you tell this is bugging me?
