Celebrating 10 years of PPP Support! See how we ensure you never walk alone here.
Celebrating 10 years of PPP Support!
Celebrating 10 years of PPP Support! See how we ensure you never walk alone here.
Celebrating 10 years of PPP Support!
Discover strategies that can help patients with Primary Periodic Paralysis (PPP) better manage their attacks.
PPP can progress to Permanent Muscle Weakness (PMW) — constant weakness that can occur independently of attacks and becomes more likely in the fifth and sixth decades of life.1,2
As a provider, you’re in a unique position to improve your patient’s PPP by helping to guide them through the following approaches.
“Frequent attacks can have a substantial impact on a patient’s ability to work and perform daily activities, so it makes sense to do whatever possible to minimize the frequency and severity of attacks.”
Optimal management of PPP attacks can help reduce the risk of negative impacts on your patient’s work, school, and family life, as well as their physical and mental health.3
Certain medications can help patients manage PPP episodes.
In addition to long-term medication, helping your patient identify and manage their triggers is crucial to reducing them. Common triggers include3,6:
PPP episodes may involve a decrease in potassium levels.6,7
Take potassium supplements as recommended by a healthcare provider.6,7 Eat a low sodium, low carbohydrate diet
Eat frequent carbohydrate-heavy meals.6,7 Avoid potassium-rich foods
Attacks of muscle stiffness that occur during activity such as exercise.8
Avoid cold temperatures and strenuous exercise7
Characterized by muscle weakness, changes in heartbeat, and distinct skeletal features.6,9
It is associated with low, normal, or high potassium levels during an episode.
Light exercise may help decrease the severity of an episode9
Since 2016, we’ve been helping patients with PPP identify and manage their triggers and reduce PPP attacks with KEVEYIS. Through
Xeris CareConnection™, get access to a treatment support program specifically for patients with PPP and their providers.
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As The Proven Leader for Primary Periodic Paralysis (PPP), we know managing this disease takes more than medication alone. That’s why we’re celebrating 10 years of ensuring you and your patients never walk alone.
