To be eligible to make (or receive) contributions to an HSA, an. employee must have no other first-dollar, non-HDHP coverage. As such, an employee cannot be covered under a spouseâs PPO. plan, HMO plan, general purpose(3) health FSA, HRA, etc. Such. coverage will make the employee ineligible to make (or receive)
It is used as a cathartic in chronic constipation. Because the acidification causes ammonia to be removed from the blood to form ammonium ion, it is also used in the treatment of hepatic coma. Its ability to increase fecal water content, however, may also cause diarrhea. A synthetic disaccharide used to treat hepatic encephalopathy, which is administered by mouth, acting as a laxative; lactulose reduces intraluminal NH3 which, via the extracellular fluid, reduces NH3 in the blood.
CATTH : The cold agglutinin titer test is to be used as a tool in the evaluation of suspected cold agglutinin syndrome. In this syndrome, cold agglutinins, usually IgM with anti-I specificity, attach to the patient's erythrocytes causing a variety of symptoms, from chronic anemia due to premature removal of the sensitized erythrocytes from circulation by hemolysis to acrocyanosis of the ears, fingers, or toes due to local blood stasis in the skin capillaries.