If calcium in your blood remains low, despite treatment, your doctor may add a prescription diuretic medication specifically, a thiazide diuretic such as hydrochlorothiazide or metolazone.

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Exuberant Australian spinner Shane Warne was another to fall foul of a drug ban, only his was not a herbal substance but the diuretics hydrochlorothiazide and amiloride normally used to aid temporary weight loss.

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