I'm salting my food again. CTYankee

[CC27]

CTyankee (49,895 posts)

I'm salting my food again.


My low sodium condition is now so bad that I'm buying salted food and salting things I haven't done in many years (since I was diagnosed with hypertension long ago). This is ridiculous. I spent 3 days in the hospital a couple of weeks ago getting saline intravenously. It didn't work on my test number.

Calling my doctor now. I don't know what he's going to tell me next. I don't have an appt. with an endocrinologist until March 21st.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/114217565

I think all the stress the orange Cheeto is causing you is making you sick. 

[franksolich]

Oh my, yes, the Hetty Green of DUmmieland, the CTyankee primitive.

She's an old woman who complains, chronically, about how poor she is, but at the same time brags about all of her first-class trips to the expensive--and white--first world countries of Europe.

In case one's not aware, the late Hetty Green was a millionairess during the Gilded Age, the 1870s, who even though she had millions, acted and lived as if she was as poor as a church-mouse.

That's the CTyankee primitive, to a tee.

[DumbAss Tanker]

That's the kind of thing that only someone who has no off-line life at all, and a totally pathetic on-line one, would post.

[SVPete]

"Hypertension" means she has high blood pressure. IIRC, the current knowledge is that one has to be a very heavy salt user for it to have a large impact on BP. If CTY has been doing the low sodium thing for years, as she suggests, the cause is not her salt intake. She should look at her weight and caffeine (e.g. coffee, tea, colas and other caffeinated sodas, chocolate). My speculation would be substantial girth plus significant coffee or tea intake.

Now, hyponatremia (low sodium) can really affect a person's mental state (this isn't a joke about DU-folk). Though her doctor never took things seriously we figured out that my MIL had that problem in her last 12-18 years of life (she lived with us). We realized what was happening when we had to take her to the hospital for a UTI, found her a totally different person the next AM (IV antibiotics in saline) and then watched her descend to her previously withdrawn persona after she was released to a SNF for a few days. It got so extreme on a cross-country trip to KS (a niece and nephew - her grandkids - were graduating from Kansas State) that at one gas stop she asked me if we were about to abandon her on the side of the road. It took the saltiest fast-food (KFC!) and frozen meals to keep her on a somewhat even keel.

So, yeah, CTY's hyponatremia can be very serious, and she should go normal to slightly salty in her food (and lay off the caffeine, and reduce her sugar & starch intake).

[FlaGator]

Drink a couple glasses of ocean water every day.

[USA4ME]

I suppose the idea of drinking a Gatorade a day is too complicated to consider.

The stupidity of the average liberal is truly unfathomable.

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[SVPete]

I suppose the idea of drinking a Gatorade a day is too complicated to consider.

Make it the low-sugar G2 variety. She probably has a weight problem

Electrolyte drinks (aka sports drinks) really are designed for people who have sweated out a lot of their electrolytes and burned off calories. There is another side of the electrolyte balance coin. Guzzling several Gatorades or 2-3 electrolyte gel packets in quick succession can have a person seeing things that aren't there. A friend of my son's who was doing a 10K made the latter mistake and had to go to the ER.

[franksolich]

This is from two years ago, but anyway:

comment 2889:
https://conservativecave.com/home/index.php?topic=81827.2875

[Tess Anderson]

OMG, assessed at under 150k, yet annual property taxes are over 6k??? Well, it's CT and New Haven at that but Jeanette is now 77 years old. She said in another post awhile back that she had vomited every day since the election, can't be good for a high-strung old gal like that.

[DUmpsterDiver]

I would suggest she ingest a daily dose of aching seed, but I suspect she likes salty fish instead.

[Skul]

 

I would suggest she ingest a daily dose of aching seed, but I suspect she likes salty fish instead.

O M G,   DD!!!  For shame,,!     




 
     

[dixierose]

"Hypertension" means she has high blood pressure. IIRC, the current knowledge is that one has to be a very heavy salt user for it to have a large impact on BP. If CTY has been doing the low sodium thing for years, as she suggests, the cause is not her salt intake. She should look at her weight and caffeine (e.g. coffee, tea, colas and other caffeinated sodas, chocolate). My speculation would be substantial girth plus significant coffee or tea intake.

Now, hyponatremia (low sodium) can really affect a person's mental state (this isn't a joke about DU-folk). Though her doctor never took things seriously we figured out that my MIL had that problem in her last 12-18 years of life (she lived with us). We realized what was happening when we had to take her to the hospital for a UTI, found her a totally different person the next AM (IV antibiotics in saline) and then watched her descend to her previously withdrawn persona after she was released to a SNF for a few days. It got so extreme on a cross-country trip to KS (a niece and nephew - her grandkids - were graduating from Kansas State) that at one gas stop she asked me if we were about to abandon her on the side of the road. It took the saltiest fast-food (KFC!) and frozen meals to keep her on a somewhat even keel.

So, yeah, CTY's hyponatremia can be very serious, and she should go normal to slightly salty in her food (and lay off the caffeine, and reduce her sugar & starch intake).

One of my brothers-in-law had a couple of seizures, and the hospital found the cause to be low saline. He was supposed to have back surgery, and they wouldn't do the operation until his sodium level was back up. He ate canned chicken noodle soup every day, and drank a lot of Gaterade. It finally leveled off; but he would "talk out of his head" every once in a while when the levels were real low.

[SVPete]

One of my brothers-in-law had a couple of seizures, and the hospital found the cause to be low saline. He was supposed to have back surgery, and they wouldn't do the operation until his sodium level was back up. He ate canned chicken noodle soup every day, and drank a lot of Gaterade. It finally leveled off; but he would "talk out of his head" every once in a while when the levels were real low.

One of the things that has me POed, 10 years later, is that part of the @#$% doctor not taking it seriously ("She's just old.") is that we learned the effects by observation and experience. My MIL lived with us the last 4 years of her life, and that trip to KS was about 16 months before she died (typo in my post, should be "12-18 months"). We had zero warning of what could happen. The evening of that incident I mentioned, we got chicken strips for her from KFC to try to bring her back closer to normal, and we ended up eating half of them, just to show her, over and over, that they weren't poisoned.

Looking over CTY's FB page, she seems focused on ProgMedia craziness and clickbait "knowledge" quizes.

[jukin]

Drink a couple glasses of ocean water every day.

I'm more thinking piss.

[BlueStateSaint]

Drink a couple glasses of ocean water every day.

Imported from Fukushima, preferably.

[thundley4]

Imported from Fukushima, preferably.

gNads tap water should be good enough.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Try arsenic salts, bitch.  I hear they make the food soooo yummy, even vomit stew or that vegan crap.

[thundley4]

Try arsenic salts, bitch.  I hear they make the food soooo yummy, even vomit stew or that vegan crap.

Since arsenic is only recently classified as essential nutrients there are not yet defined the recommended daily allowance for this essential micronutrient, but most sources recommend consuming between 12.5 and 25 micrograms of this nutrient a day in a form of organic arsenic.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Since arsenic is only recently classified as essential nutrients there are not yet defined the recommended daily allowance for this essential micronutrient, but most sources recommend consuming between 12.5 and 25 micrograms of this nutrient a day in a form of organic arsenic.

 

H5, btw.

[BattleHymn]

She's back to salted peanuts, because the unsalted ones make her choke. 

[thundley4]

She's back to salted peanuts, because the unsalted ones make her choke.

But unsalted raw peanuts are much cheaper to buy in bulk at the feed store.