What the label lists and what reports show

Dextrose and potassium chloride side effects

Dextrose and potassium chloride's FDA label lists its adverse reactions in its own words. FAERS holds 92,110 reports naming it through July 30, 2026; the reaction reported most often, leaving out the conditions it is used for, product-use terms and outcomes, is diarrhoea (6,758 reports).

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Check it at the source: the dextrose and potassium chloride FDA label on DailyMed (effective July 15, 2019, Baxter Healthcare Company); the FDA FAERS public dashboard.

What does the label list?

From the label: adverse reactions
The following adverse reactions associated with the use of Potassium Chloride in Dextrose Injection were identified in post marketing reports. Because these reactions were reported voluntarily from a population of uncertain size, it is not always possible to reliably estimate their frequency or establish a causal relationship to drug exposure. The following clinically significant adverse reactions are described elsewhere in the labeling: • Hypersensitivity reactions: including anaphylaxis and chills [see Warnings and Precautions (5.1) ]. …

Source: FDA drug label, Baxter Healthcare Company, effective July 15, 2019 (SPL set 45de5402-5e61-4bbd-8bbc-5e3392c9920e), via openFDA; the full label on DailyMed

What do FAERS reports show?

92,110 reports list dextrose and potassium chloride among the medicines taken, each a report of something that happened, not proof the medicine caused it; 13,521 are coded as a death and 42,525 as a hospital stay. Counts follow how widely a medicine is used and watched, and they are not a measure of how risky it is. Of the 22 reactions below, 5 are named by the same term (in US spelling) in the label's adverse reactions, warnings or patient leaflet; a reaction the label does not name may still be there under another word, and a report does not show that the medicine caused it.

Reports received each year

The 25 most reported reactions

Diarrhoea (named in the label)6,758
Dyspnoea6,668
Nausea (named in the label)6,483
Fatigue6,276
Death (an outcome recorded in the report)4,579
Pneumonia4,486
Headache (named in the label)4,145
Asthenia4,138
Vomiting (named in the label)4,138
Off Label Use (a use or a product term, not a reaction)4,037
Dizziness3,964
Pain3,852
Fall3,612
Drug Ineffective (a use or a product term, not a reaction)3,566
Anaemia3,140
Pyrexia (named in the label)3,112
Hypotension3,092
Weight Decreased2,947
Malaise2,893
Cough2,783
Acute Kidney Injury2,734
Constipation2,580
Abdominal Pain2,434
Oedema Peripheral2,429
Arthralgia2,385

Source: FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) via openFDA, reports through July 30, 2026; reactions as MedDRA preferred terms

What next?

Dextrose and potassium chloride: the full record: label, generics, price, shortages, recalls
Report a side effect to the FDA: MedWatch
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