低血钾软病是由食用粗制棉籽油引起的发生于棉产区的一种地方病,主要临床特点是四肢弛缓性瘫痪和低血钾。本病需要与低钾性周期性麻痹、格林—巴利综合征、尿崩症、心肌炎、癔病性瘫痪等相鉴别。我院1984年4月至1990年3月共收治62例,其中误诊18例(包括在外院、门诊及住院期间误诊者)。本文对18例误诊病例 Hypokalemia is a form of endemic disease that occurs in cotton-growing areas caused by the consumption of crude cottonseed oil. The main clinical features are flaccid paralysis and hypokalemia in the limbs. The disease needs and hypokalemic periodic paralysis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, diabetes insipidus, myocarditis, hysteria paralysis phase identification. Our hospital from April 1984 to March 1990 were treated 62 cases, of which 18 were misdiagnosed (including in the out-patient, out-patient and inpatient misdiagnosis). 18 cases of misdiagnosed cases