UreaPro Information For Patients

What is Hyponatremia?

Hyponatremia or low sodium is a common medical condition that easily can be diagnosed by a simple blood test. The most common cause of hyponatremia is due to the inability of the body to excrete excess water. Excess water accumulates in the blood, dilutes the sodium level, and leads to low sodium levels. The signs and symptoms of hyponatremia may include:

Brain fog
Drowsiness
Headache
Falls
Seizures
Slow reaction time
Osteoporosis leading to weak bones and risk of fracture
And in some cases, even Death

What Causes Hyponatremia

There are many possible causes of Hyponatremia. For more in depth information, we recommend reviewing the information linked above from the NKF, NIH and UpToDate.

One basic way to explain it, is to consider how humans lived long ago. Before the modern age of easily accessible clean water, our body was programmed to hold water tightly, to avoid dehydration.

In the modern age when water is accessible, our ancestry sometimes kicks in when we are under unusual physical stressors and the body may signal to retain water unnecessarily.

These stressors include:

Lung diseases (COPD, cancer, infection)
Brain diseases (cancer, strokes, scarring, infections)
Pain
Nausea (especially after surgery)

Other potential Hyponatremia causes include thyroid disturbances, medications especially thiazide diuretics, anti-depressive medications and anti-seizure medications, poor diet, as well as adrenal insufficiency.

This said, Hyponatremia often has an unknown cause called an Idiopathic cause.

The hormone that is secreted from your pituitary gland that may be causing hyponatremia is called Anti-Diuretic Hormone (ADH). ADH does just what its name implies; it is anti-diuresis or slows urine output. The urine turns dark and concentrated, and water excretion is dramatically reduced.

How Can UreaPro Help?

UreaPro is a medical food, used for the treatment of Hyponatremia. UreaPro draws excess water out of the body via the kidneys without removing important electrolytes especially sodium. The removal of excess water without the removal of sodium results in increased sodium levels.

UreaPro can often raise sodium level without the need for salt tablets and/or extreme fluid restriction, which can be more comfortable by allowing less fluid restriction and not raise blood pressure by adding excess sodium.

UreaPro is an unflavored urea in a multidose, resealable package. We pride ourselves to provide great quality at an affordable cost. This option offers a lower cost alternative compared to flavored ure-Na and allows people to add their own flavoring

UreaPro can be purchased directly, but should be taken under the supervision of a medical provider

Hospital Discharge

You may have been given ure-Na in the hospital which is a lemon-lime flavored urea. ure-Na is used in Americas top hospitals as a treatment option for hyponatremia.

UreaPro has the same high quality urea that ure-Na has and is stabilized like ure-Na to reduce clumping, but unlike ure-Na, UreaPro needs to be flavored.

UreaPro can be purchased directly by consumers, but should be taken under the supervision of a medical provider. Please see the Buy UreaPRO pages for purchase options.

Diagnosing Hyponatremia

The only way to properly diagnose Hyponatremia is with a blood test. Your doctor may also test your urine, specifically urine electrolytes and osmolarity (concentration). These tests together with a thorough history, medication review and physical examination will help your doctor determine the cause of the water imbalance.

Flavoring and mixing UreaPRO

Stabilized UreaPro was designed to reduce clumping versus raw urea for accurate dosing and easy mixing. A scoop of UreaPro has 15 grams of USP grade, stabilized, synthetically derived urea.

The synthetically made urea in UreaPro is naturally bitter and most people taking it prefer to mix it with a strong juice or a powdered drink mix such as gatorade, or soda.

A 15 gram dose, which is a scoop of UreaPro should be mixed in 3-4 ounces of the preferred flavoring liquid. UreaPro is designed to mix in only 3-4 ounces so it won't effect any fluid restrictions.