Triamterene is a potassium-sparing diuretic (water pill) that prevents your body from absorbing too much salt and keeps your potassium levels from getting too low. Triamterene is used to treat fluid retention in people with congestive heart failure, cirrhosis of the liver, or a kidney condition called nephrotic syndrome. Triamterene is also used to treat edema caused by using steroid medicine or having too much aldosterone in your body.
The biggest coral reef in the continental U.S. is dissolving into the ocean. Be the first to know about new stories from PowerPost. Sign up to follow, and weâll e-mail you free updates as theyâre published. Youâll receive free e-mail news updates each time a new story is published.
Lack of light will of course kill a reefâno live coral growth takes place below about 50 metres under the surface. Hence thick atolls such as Eniwetok require the ocean floor to sink as the coral builds.As the coral is lowered, faster growth is possible than that which we measure at the surface.his is a living reef resting on an extinct volcano cone which comes up about three kilometres (two miles) from the ocean floor. Drilling revealed about 1,400 metres (4,600 feet) of reef material.