sf wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:43:46 -0500, "Jean B." > wrote:
>
>> sf wrote:
>>> On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:50:14 -0500, "Jean B." > wrote:
>>>
>>>> sf wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:06:38 -0500, "Jean B." > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2/14/2012 11:21 PM, Jean B. wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Also, I take a BP med. I also test. Early in the game, I established
>>>>>>>> that salt did not affect my BP. I wonder how many people it DOES affect?
>>>>>>>> I wonder how many people are told to lower the sodium in their diets for
>>>>>>>> some generic reason, without being tested?
>>>>>>> My MIL had very low blood pressure, actually prone to fainting
>>>>>>> now and again. Naturally they told her to reduce sodium in her
>>>>>>> diet.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I guess they just hate sodium.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> nancy
>>>>>> That is VERY odd. A newsgroup friend was fainting, and that was
>>>>>> the finding in her case too. This was understandable, because she
>>>>>> doesn't LIKE salt.
>>>>> And my neighbor had the opposite diagnosis after passing out. She
>>>>> needed *more* salt! Her body wasn't metabolizing the salt in her diet
>>>>> properly. She was on an IV for two weeks and sodium tablets after
>>>>> that. Her body is functioning properly now so she doesn't have to
>>>>> take supplements anymore.
>>>>>
>>>> No, that's the same diagnosis.
>>> Sorry, but I don't see how being told to reduce sodium is the same as
>>> needing more.
>>>
>> I didn't say that.
>
> You said it was the same diagnosis, it's not.
>
She was diagnosed with low BP. She needed to consume more salt.
She doesn't like salt.

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Jean B.