Afternoon All,
My husband has been fighting a losing battle on raising his sodium levels to what the doctors would like to see. He is not a real salt eater and therefore only uses little sea salt at all. He wanted me to ask if anyone has a good idea on what course he can take to raise them. He said that Tex is a encyclopedia of information and to ask him but I will appreciate any information anyone has.
Thanks and Love, Maggie
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If he doesn't like to eat salt, I suppose he can swallow salt tablets, the way I used to do in the summer when working hard outdoors in the sun all day. I used the tablets because the salt in my food wasn't sufficient to keep up with all the perspiration, and when I tried drinking water saturated with salt, it often made me nauseous. The tablets seemed to work better.A better solution might be a sodium supplement, but I've never tried any of them. Maybe someone else will have some better ideas.
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Tex
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Maggie,
I have the same problem. Having low sodium levels makes you feel totally exhausted and weak all the time. I can never get mine above 130. When it's down to 125 I feel horrible, and it's been 121 - then I was hospitalized.
Eating salt or taking salt tablets does not help. Sodium levels and eating salt do NOT correlate. Salt tablets can be used to replace the salt lost by perspiration, as Tex described, but that doesn't affect the sodium chloride in the blood.
I have to watch my, what they call "free water", intake. I know when I am exhausted it could be the sodium, so I have to reduce my water, or liquid, intake. That means no watermelon (which I can't eat because of MC) because of it's water content, which was always a punishment for me, and only very concentrated fresh juices.
When I was in hospital they would only allow me one glass of water a day. I could have chocolate milk if I had to drink something. I went nuts. I started chewing apple peel for the moisture and spitting it out because I couldn't eat all those apples, and my mouth was SO dry.
I also have high BP, which goes up if I don't drink enough, so it's a damned if I do and damned if I don't situation.
I suck on candy to keep my salivary glands stimulated both for the GERD, and for dealing with my dry mouth situation .
I know exactly how your husband feels. I hope, by cutting down on "free" water he can remedy the situation.
I have the same problem. Having low sodium levels makes you feel totally exhausted and weak all the time. I can never get mine above 130. When it's down to 125 I feel horrible, and it's been 121 - then I was hospitalized.
Eating salt or taking salt tablets does not help. Sodium levels and eating salt do NOT correlate. Salt tablets can be used to replace the salt lost by perspiration, as Tex described, but that doesn't affect the sodium chloride in the blood.
I have to watch my, what they call "free water", intake. I know when I am exhausted it could be the sodium, so I have to reduce my water, or liquid, intake. That means no watermelon (which I can't eat because of MC) because of it's water content, which was always a punishment for me, and only very concentrated fresh juices.
When I was in hospital they would only allow me one glass of water a day. I could have chocolate milk if I had to drink something. I went nuts. I started chewing apple peel for the moisture and spitting it out because I couldn't eat all those apples, and my mouth was SO dry.
I also have high BP, which goes up if I don't drink enough, so it's a damned if I do and damned if I don't situation.
I suck on candy to keep my salivary glands stimulated both for the GERD, and for dealing with my dry mouth situation .
I know exactly how your husband feels. I hope, by cutting down on "free" water he can remedy the situation.
Re: Help for Low Sodium Levels
Hi Maggie,MaggieRedwings wrote:Afternoon All,
My husband has been fighting a losing battle on raising his sodium levels to what the doctors would like to see. He is not a real salt eater and therefore only uses little sea salt at all. He wanted me to ask if anyone has a good idea on what course he can take to raise them. He said that Tex is a encyclopedia of information and to ask him but I will appreciate any information anyone has.
Thanks and Love, Maggie
I can share what I do....eat 2 dill pickles daily. This advice came from my nutritionist. The only thing about them is I'm wondering if the vinegar upsets my stomach so I've stopped eating them for a few days and am going to try them again today.