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[Update - Oops! I typed in the wrong amount of sodium in my electrolyte mix. Correct amount is much higher, see later post on this thread]
I was looking through a bunch of different research studies and found the following recommendation for patients with low blood volume (hypovolemic patients) in a review of POTS - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-8167.2008.01407.x/pdf :
Wow, that's a lot of sodium! I thought I was taking a reasonable amount but it's nowhere near this.
I looked it up and 1 gram salt has 387.6 mg sodium.
So that means (please check my math!) that 10 grams of salt = 3876 mg sodium or 168.52 mEq sodium. (Note: I used http://www.nafwa.org/convert1.php to convert the units from mg to mEq). That's on the low end of the recommendation. Double everything to get the high end of 20 grams of salt.
I know I don't get this much. My guess is that I get maybe 2000 mg of sodium daily (maybe more?). This guess comes from adding up salt tablets (180 mg x 5 tablets = 900 mg), a liter of electrolyte solution (my home made version has about 450 mg sodium) and whatever is in my diet. I think my diet is fairly low in sodium because I don't eat a lot of fast/processed food other than some canned beans.
Does anyone out there take 10-20 grams of salt? Comments?
I'm just curious whether I should try increasing my sodium a bit more.
I was looking through a bunch of different research studies and found the following recommendation for patients with low blood volume (hypovolemic patients) in a review of POTS - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-8167.2008.01407.x/pdf :
The hypovolemic patient will do well with expanding plasma volume with generous salt intake and fludrocortisone. The salt intake should be between 150–250 mEq of sodium (10–20 g of salt). Some patients are intensely sensitive to salt intake and can fine-tune their plasma volume and BP control with salt intake alone.
Wow, that's a lot of sodium! I thought I was taking a reasonable amount but it's nowhere near this.
I looked it up and 1 gram salt has 387.6 mg sodium.
So that means (please check my math!) that 10 grams of salt = 3876 mg sodium or 168.52 mEq sodium. (Note: I used http://www.nafwa.org/convert1.php to convert the units from mg to mEq). That's on the low end of the recommendation. Double everything to get the high end of 20 grams of salt.
I know I don't get this much. My guess is that I get maybe 2000 mg of sodium daily (maybe more?). This guess comes from adding up salt tablets (180 mg x 5 tablets = 900 mg), a liter of electrolyte solution (my home made version has about 450 mg sodium) and whatever is in my diet. I think my diet is fairly low in sodium because I don't eat a lot of fast/processed food other than some canned beans.
Does anyone out there take 10-20 grams of salt? Comments?
I'm just curious whether I should try increasing my sodium a bit more.
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