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Hyponatremia: Anyone else have low sodium?

Posted by JohnWBurns @johnwburns, Aug 6, 2016

Hyponatremia, especially the mild version, may be more prevalent and cause more issues than previously thought. Just food for thought. I have as yet unexplained bradycardia and am on a diuretic so I suspect it. Have had borderline readings in the past.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3933395/

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hooman | @hooman | Apr 5 8:24pm

Hi there
Management: Free water restriction,(< 1L/d), treat cause(you are going to have to look them up), monitor serumNa concentration frequently, monitor urine output.

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Cheryl, Volunteer Mentor | @cehunt57 | Apr 7 12:01am

My mother had an episode of hyponatremia (low sodium) during a hospitalization for something else. She was put on water restriction, which she could barely tolerate because she loved to guzzle copious amounts of water. A nephrologist was called in and prescribed an IV of something that looked like egg whites. I believe it was albumin. (This was about 20 years ago). We were also told that we could encourage her to eat salty foods. I tried potato chips (that is my nemesis), but she went for salted pistachios in the shells. She got busy cracking and the hyponatremia was righted.

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barbara108 | @barbara108 | Apr 8 11:27am
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My mother had an episode of hyponatremia (low sodium) during a hospitalization for something else. She was put on water restriction, which she could barely tolerate because she loved to guzzle copious amounts of water. A nephrologist was called in and prescribed an IV of something that looked like egg whites. I believe it was albumin. (This was about 20 years ago). We were also told that we could encourage her to eat salty foods. I tried potato chips (that is my nemesis), but she went for salted pistachios in the shells. She got busy cracking and the hyponatremia was righted.

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I have a low sodium problem also. Drinking a lot of water is a sign of dehydration. Sometimes you can’t help but do that and it makes the problem worse cause you’re washing everything out of your body. I don’t know a lot of doctors didn’t know about chronic low sodium.
I do know that I have a chronic illness that creates it and I take Vitassium Electrolyte capsules. It’s
Scientifically formulated to maintain sodium chloride and potassium. But I would always check with a doctor about it.

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