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.
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Note the extreme bleaching in this Diploria at the Grotto, San Salvador, Bahamas. Coral Reef Bleaching. Coral reef bleaching occurs when corals undergo great stress. The symbiotic algae, zooxanthallae, is expelled or its photosynthetic pigments harmed--thus the coral appears white. The corals may be weakened to the point of death. A number of environmental factors, both natural and anthropogenic, can cause bleaching.