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can u be allergic two sal and if so what are the sines
evre time i eat somethink with salt i get rashis and chest panes also i have been to the docder and he said that u cunt be allergic but i whont to know if u can be allergic to salt
can i be allergic to salt
iv been geting rashes on my skin and it bernds i just need to know if i am allergic to salt
also iv been to the doc and he said u cant be allergic to salt whot do u think i should do nexts
Salt is essential to life
Salt is essential to life. You wouldn’t survive without it. Ever heard the expression “worth his salt”?
I have heard of conditions where too much salt can cause problems, besides the well-known problems with hypertension, and the less well known problems with glaucoma.
Have you seen a dermatologist? They specialize in skin problems.
If you think you have allergies, see an allergist.
Did your doctor make any suggestions?
no
no he did not i just need to know if you can be algic to salt have you ever herd of people beeing algic to salt
and my lip swels up when i eat stuffe with salt in exspcile with high grams of salt need to know what to do nexts.
salt allergy
eating salt in any foods makes me my skin very itchy and runs in my family. My sisters doctor tested her for many allergies and conformed that she is definitely allergic to salt. I was a huge eater of vegemite as a child and a friend told me that her naturapath said vegemite with its high salt and high yeast has caused a lot of people to have systemic candita. i am going to get tested at the doctors soon. Sugar also makes my skin dry and itchy but not as bad. I think i need to purefy the waster i drink in case of salt mineral content.
Reduce your salt intake
Experts recommend 4-5g of salt per day.
Many people take double this amount each day.
Cut your salt intake by about half and see what happens.
If you experience muscle cramps then it probably means you have cut back too far on your salt intake.
WRONG! This is not true. The American Heart Association and American Dietetic Association recommend no more than 2,300mg or (2.3 grams) per day with many now leaning to 1,500mg or (1.5 grams) per day.
Jessica, when you say “wrong”, what are you referring too?
Experts may not agree on the correct salt intake. The fact is, everyone had different needs according to their body type, level of physical exercise, how much they sweat, and myriad other factors.
Salt deficiency is a serious (but rare) problem. I know people (including myself) who have suffered from it.
Too much salt will kill you slowly; too little will kill you quickly.
I’m very careful about how
I’m very careful about how much salt I use at home. Whenever I go out to eat I get a headache, extremely dry eyes, stuffy nose, my upper lip feels swollen, sometimes even like a brain fog. I’m thinking that it’s too much salt at one time.
Could be MSG
Not to disagree with you, because you could be right …
Another thing to watch out for is MSG. This is very commonly used in a lot of restaurants, and has a bad effect on a lot of people.
Next time you go out to east, request ‘no MSG’ and see how you feel afterwords.
Do please leave another comment next time you try that out.
Excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis)
Every time I eat or drink something with salt ,I sewat exsesibly for 24 hours, also my bones hurt, specially my joints, and I urinate every 20 minutes, don’t know what to do anymore, the Drs say there is nothing wrong with me, I have gone several days without salt and I got a break from these simptoms, but in return I get horrible crumps in my legs, abdominal spasms, has anyone ever heard of something like this before? please help.
Need salt, but not too much
You need salt in your diet, but not too much.
First, try sea salt instead of regular table salt. It has less sodium, and more other necessary types of salt.
Secondly, reduce the amount of salt you eat, but don’t eliminate it entirely.
When I have a chance I will complete the salt article which will provide more definitive guidelines about salt.
Hope that helps.
This is not true either. Sea salt has the same amount of sodium. The only difference is that sea salt has a different taste due to its collection and is related to the natural impurities found in it versus regular table salt.
Just limit salt in general. All kinds. Including onion salt, garlic salt, and lemon pepper.
Table salt is 100% sodium chloride. Sea salt is about 98% sodium chloride. So sea salt does have less sodium, but not significantly less, not enough to make any real difference.
So Jessica is right, if you are going to limit salt, that includes sea salt.
There are low sodium salts, e.g. “no salt” and other brand names. They are salt, but not 100% sodium chloride. Instead they use a high proportion of potassium chloride, another type of salt (chemical definition, not culinary definition).
I too sweat excessivly for 24 hours, my bones hurt as well, have osteo in my neck and it gets very painful. Only recetly I have figured out that it appears to be the salt. How can one get diagnosed or find out, I am about at my wits end with the sweating. I would so appreciate if someone could help.
Yes you can be allergic to salt
I was exposed to commercial grade salt and now I go into anaphlaxic shock every time Iam exposed to sodium. This is life threating.
Commercial grade salt?
A Hames,
What do you mean by “commercial grade salt”?
Salt is a chemical, the only question is how pure it is.
Table salt is sodium chloride. Commercial grade table salt is also sodium chloride, yes?
Maybe the commercial grade salt you were exposed to was not table salt. There are thousands of types of salt (some edible, even essential to human health, others not).
Sodium itself is a metal, and a highly reactive metal at that. If you were exposed to pure sodium, you’d get burned.
Maybe you could clarify?
Salt allergy
You may be allergic to an ingredient in the food rather than the salt itself.
Allergies can cause your lips to become red and slightly swollen – so salt touching them would hurt.
If you are eating potato chips when this happens – check what they are cooked in & switch to a brand cooked in a different type of oil.
Salt intolerance/allergy
I am quite sure I have a salt allergy, but the symptoms mentioned above do not match the ones I experience. I get tightness in the chest, difficulty breathing, tiredness, loss of all energy and a general feeling of lethargy. I know that it is not other foods that I am eating at the time, because I have experimented. It just came on suddenly this year. Generally I am an extremely healthy person!
When I completely cut out salt for days I feel so much better. If I eat something with a moderate amount of salt I will feel the effects for at least two days.
This is so depressing because I already have a very limited diet – I am a strict vegetarian AND I am gluten intolerant.
My girlfriend read in a naturopathy book that a high potassium diet might help. I am going to give that a try, but basically I may just have to change my diet forever and live with it.
Finally, I should mention that I took a swim in the ocean at the end of summer and I felt fantastic! All my symptoms disappeared for a few days. I don’t understand it but I intend to try it again when the seasons become warmer, it might be worth a shot.
Mineral imbalance?
Maybe you have a mineral imbalance.
Swimming in the ocean won’t cure an allergy, but it may expose you to types of salt you don’t normally have in your diet.
Salt intolerance
I also have a similar intolerance to salt. For a year or so, my symptoms were identical to yours, but over the past three years these symptoms have become more acute.
A few hours after consuming a total of about 4g of salt (cumilativly over the course of a day), my symptoms now include palpitations, loss of blood flow from arms, legs and head (resulting in an overall grey apearance, an itchy scalp and a very strong sweat odour from under my arms), tremours and weakness.
At 6g of salt, these symptoms extend to include vomiting, intense headache, colourful visual disturbances – similar to a migrane – and breathing difficulties.
These events last for between 20mins and an hour, and before finding out that salt was the culprit, would occur once or twice during the day and bring me out of sleep at least once during the night.
As long as I keep my salt intake below about 4g, I can mainly avoid these symptoms, although I still have about 5 ‘attacks’ per week, but I am very concerned that as time passes, this threshold will drop further.
Thankfully, I do not suffer from mood swings or swollen lips that are frequently refered to on the web, but Marcus, you seem to have the exact same problems as I was experiencing about 3 years ago – please get in touch if your symptoms have progressed (or improved), as it could be mutualy benificial.
I am 47, 12 stone and fit. I anyone has any theories other than ‘you cant be alergic to salt’, then I am very keen to listen.
I have localized salt allergy
Hi, I have a salt allergy. When I eat popcorn at the movies or the garlic butter salt that you can put on pizza my lips get knumb and swell. I never had that problem as a kid but it’s something that has develped as I got older. Also if It’s on my fingers and I scratch my nose or rub my eyes it burns like crazy. It doesn’t bother me to eat salt otherwise. Also I don’t really like salt at all. I don’t add it to anything except maybe popcorn and eggs and very little when I do.
Pure salt can irritate
What you’re describing is a typical reaction to pure salt for some people.
This is not an allergy.
am I allergic to salt?
I find that when I eat chinese food,especially after 6pm,I sweat all night,so I have to drink gallons of water.I get red lumps on my back,and I cant sleep.
MSG allergy more likely
Hi Julie,
Chinese cooking is not particularly high in salt as a general rule.
It does have a reputation for being quite high in MSG.
Try asking for food without MSG.
Yes, this is true. But – MSG is a kind of modified wheat, salt and gum, but a chemical. So the wheat properties (taste) are multiplied by the salt, so the food tastes far better with little ingredients, bascially a filler. Who knows what kind of salt like allergy MSG can have on a individual? Seeing it is a chemical, technically, it would be a chemical alergy. Which to me sounds like an oxy-moron; No on should react well to a chemical!
There are many classes of chemical.
Everything in the physical world is a chemical, including water and oxygen.
Many chemical reaction problems arise from synthesized rather than natural chemicals, and refined chemicals (including MSG and sugar).
You can’t be allergic to
You can’t be allergic to salt because it is a necessity to life. Your body can’t function with out it. it’s more likely the msg.
Salt allergy
I have a salt allergy and it seem I have to much, it like it is coming out of my eye’s like grit and out of my skin, it makes me very tied and I can lose weight, I have been told by my dr that my metabilsim has stop, can you help me solve my problem.
Kind Regards Mennie
bad reaction to salt
There are 3 people that I know of (one is me) that get extremely tense, angry and irritable for 2 days after the consumption of any added salt, the sodium that is present in milk etc.. is o.k., but if any salt at all is added, or any baking soda, sea salt, msg etc.., basically anything containing sodium, we have this horrible reaction. Also, I get a headache and my heart pounds, one of the other 2 also ends up with a bad stomach ache the next day and spends alot of time in the bathroom. We have been testing this for about 10 years now, so we know for a fact that it is salt.
One Dr., (we have seen many) suggested an issue with sodium channels. I have also looked into hypernatremia, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Anyone have any thoughts that may be helpful? This is so bad for us that we avoid salt completely. If we do get some, we don’t have to say anything, as people notice easily. This is a very hard diet, any help would be appreciated.
I have similar symptoms to
I have similar symptoms to you, I have to restrict my sodium intake to between 900 and 1200mg per day due to an ion channel blockage caused by mercury leaching from my fillings. My family have a history of acrodynia (pink disease) with five sufferers disgnosed in 3 generations, so there’s a tendency to accumulate mercury rather than to eliminate it.
I’m being treated for chronic mercury poisoning now with chellating agents and can just start to see an improvement after 12 months.
Mercury in fillings and ion channel blockage
Thanks for making the connection between mercury from dental work and the particular problem of salt sensitivity.
I had all my fillings out about ten years ago and my allergy problems are slowly improving.
I’m now detoxifying with Immunocal.
Just today, I had the last toxic piece of metal removed from my mouth. I forgot about my bridge.
It doesn’t have mercury in it, but it likely has cadmium, another toxic heavly metal, and nickle, which is carcinogenic.
Regarding your salt allergy… I may have some thoughts. Are you a vegetarian OR have you ever done spriulina or chlorella or seaweeds for any length of time?
Mary
I have a sensitivity to salt and am a vegan. I do add spriulina to some food also. I am interested in your thoughts. Thanks!
Being vegan is definitely challenging. Many vegetarians use soy as a major protein source. It is high in estrogen-like chemicals and unless fermented, is not healthy in large quantities. I’ve heard conflicting views about tofu, so you might want to look into that some more.
I’m still trying to get more information on salt sensitivity. One thing I have discovered is that many people are sensitive to iodine rather than salt, and most salt is iodized. You might want to look into that. Salt is very important to the body (unless you get way to much – which many people do) so it would be worth finding out if it is the salt, the iodine (some sea food and seaweeds tend to be high in iodine), or some other salt additive which is causing the problem.
Do please share anything that you find.
Good luck!
salt allergy
I think I am allergic to salt—I have been experimenting with what I am eating/not eating and the only thing that makes sense is the salt. If I eat popcorn (that I make fresh) and put salt (or sea salt) on it, I wake up the next morning and my eyes are almost swollen shut–the extreme puffiness stays for a couple days–they are also itchy and red—very attractive! I try to avoid salty foods—I can have some salt, but not much. Is this possible? I have been to an allergist–we thought it might be sulfites because if I drink even a couple sips of wine from a box the reaction starts almost immediately. After testing for this we found this wasn’t the case and he asked me to keep a food diary. I have been on a very strict diet and after eating the same food for several days and being symptom free, it is fairly easy to tell that it was something on the popcorn. I put butter and salt on it—I have also had a reaction to crackers, Taco Bell tacos, french fries—-the only thing that seems to be the same is the salt. Any ideas?
Salt sensitivity condition
I believe there is a condition where you can be hyper-sensitive to salt, although it is not an allergy.
Best you talk to your doctor about this.
It sounds like you do better without salt in your diet, although salt is necessary for the body to work properly (I was once extremely sick due to a salt deficiency).
You’ll definitely want medical advice from your doctor on this one.
I was reading your problem and it seems I have the same situation with my eyes swelling right up and having to be on cortizone and benadry. My reaction lasts for at least 6 days. This started in 1983 for me and in the last 5 years I only learned what it is for me and it is artificial fruit flavouring in many foods. Natural fruit is fine for me. It could be in crackers as well, ice creams, fruit flavoured chocolates, juice boxes or other fruit juices, fruit flavoured yogurts, plain are fine. I have to read labels and restaurants may have it I usually try to get something plain. It is in many foods and have to read labels. Hope this helps you out.
Salt sensitivity???
I think I am having an extreme reaction to sodium. For the past several months, I have been experiencing severe edema everywhere. It is in my face, feet, ankles, legs, hands, abdomen, etc. My whole body swells up and if I eat a certain food with a lot of sodium in it, I can gain 10 lbs in one day from the edema!! I’m not sure if it is just sodium or if it is for sure the sodium, but it is the only thing that I can come up with right now. I feel weak and tired and have no energy during this. I’ve tried diuretics and they barely help. Even if I avoid sodium (as best as I can, considering everything has sodium in it), I am still mildly swollen. I have been to several doctors including my general doctor, endocrinologist, allergist and gastroenterologist. I have had several blood tests checking my hormones, organ functions, thyroid, etc. and all of my labwork is normal. I also had a cat scan of my abdomen and that was normal as well. I had an endoscopy done and am still waiting the biopsy results. I have never had anything like this happen to me before and I never had any allergies or food sensitivities that I’m aware of. I’m pretty sure that something is going on in my body and that salt (sodium) and alcohol just intensify the effects of the edema. My blood pressure is also normal. None of the doctors can help me and they are all clueless. I am very aggravated and angry at this point and I need to know what is going on with my body. I weigh ten more lbs today than I did two days ago!! I had Thai food for dinner (I even asked them to lighten up on the salt) on Friday and Mexican on Saturday. I am overall a very healthy person. I am active and eat very healthy usually. I have an appointment this week to see a Rheumatologist and also a Naturopath. I’m not sure what I should be eating or what else I can do to figure this out. Please help!! Any advice/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am losing my mind over this. : (
salt sensitivity???
hello, I have been going through the same thing for quite awhile. I understand the frustration. I am supposed to see an allergist in a couple of weeks. I have also had the weight gain and swelling. I was just on my honeymoon and did some drinking and it seemed to get worse. I also ended up with an abcess in my gum and was rinsing with saltwater and my leg blew up like a balloon. I am still swollen and my calf is 5 inches smaller! If you come up with any answers please email me. My name is Tricia. Im from Pennsylvania. [email removed due to policy against emails in comments. Please reply in comments below -ed]
Tracy I understand what you
Tracy I understand what you are going through. The same thing happens to me and the doctors think I am crazy. Would love to know how you are making out . Do you have an email?
Salt water allergy
My son (2 yrs. old) has developed rashes after being in salt water swimming pools and now after going to the beach. I can’t seem to find anything about this. Is it possible that he has an allergy to salt water?
salt water allergy
my son had the same problem. dr said it was eczema, and to make sure to put lots of skin lotion on it and if it did not work to come back for a cream. 1st time it happened we thought it was a jellyfish the second time we thought he was bittten by a spider or something. Did what the doctor said and it was gone in 3 days.
Salt and joint swelling
I’m just wondering if anyone has heard of what can cause joint swelling the day after eating salt? it’s been occurring for 8 mos or so, and i’ve cut back to NO salt at all the past several mos, but occasionally i break down and have some and several of my joints swell and are in excruciating pain, to the point where if I ingest a lot of salt or i eat it more than two days in a row, i can’t walk because of the pain in my foot/toe joints………..any ideas?
dr. think arthritis but i have to go back for a follow up………been delaying on that……
salt sensitivity
Wow, I find this tread very interesting. I have been noticing when I add too much salt to my food or eat out my eyes swell at night and my joints swell. The mercury poisoning part fascinates me as my sister was just diagnosed with severe mercury poisoning and we both have mercury fillings. I also have early onset of arthritis as i am only 37. I am wondering if there is a correlation? I plan to get my mercury levels checked.
In NYC restaurants are being forced to cut the sodium by 20%.
My mother has a serious
My mother has a serious medical condition that she calls an allergy to salt. In fact it is probably an intolerance. Allergies are reactions to proteins and salt has no protein, but intolerances can be similar at least in how they feel to the patient. She was diagnosed almost 50 years ago when patients didn’t have access to as much information as they do now and has continual medical care for it. She has been told to avoid all salt and takes Aldactone. She can’t eat any kind of processed or canned foods because they have added salt. She can only eat in restaurants where they will specially cook her food without salt. Foods that have a lot of salt naturally, like spinach, she must avoid. In a way it’s been a good thing for our family as we’ve all learned to cook fresh foods well.
I’m sure she gets tiny amounts of salt where it naturally occurs in food. The Aldactone is to deal with that. I know that salt is supposed to be necessary, but somehow she only functions well without as much as most people need, though I’m sure there is a tiny amount in her system.
Salt makes her swell and she becomes extremely irritable. Her personality really shifts. I don’t know if she gets hives or itchy skin. She’s always been meticulous in her avoidence of salt so I have few memories of her symptoms. While a salt “allergy” isn’t really possible, it is possible to have a serious medical condition that requires the elimination of salt from the diet. Anyone having these kinds of problems should see a physician to discover the source. Whether it’s an intolerance, allergy to something else, or another underlying problem like a heart condition, a physician should be able to help.
Thanks for the information
Thanks for the information. You have included some details that will be helpful to other who can not tolerate salt.
Could you please tell us what the name of the condition is? Thank you, Mary
I’m another one with a negative reaction to salt. I’ve been aware of my problem for several years but have been living with it and have just recently begun to try to find answers. My family physician just doesn’t know much about it.
As well as the problem sources listed in the former comments above, I can add a few more. During the winter, particularily late winter, I have a very difficult time with road salt dust. On dry days, traffic stirs the de-icing salt spread on the highways and when I breathe the unavoidable dust I’m off stride (sick) for a couple of days; experiencing swollen and cracked lips, puffiness in the face, upset digestion and irratibility. Another related problem source occurs when I sweep the garage floor in the spring. The concrete floor has a high level of road salt on it from slush and ice dropping from the car onto the garage floor. It melts dries and creates a sodium dust later. I experience similar reactions to this salt intake. These two sources suggest sodium can be taken into the body through the lungs as you breathe a salt laden dust. Salt is quite soluble and easily dissolves into the moisture within the lung aveoli and from there it’s an easy osmotic trip into the bloodstream.
A third source from which I suffer bad reactions is from powdered dishwasher detergent. The tiny residue of detergent on a glass rim is enough to make my lips and face puff up for 2 or 3 hours. I no longer drink from a glass washed in a dishwasher.
I would like to know if anyone is aware of medical research projects or studies that have been done in the past, or that are currently underway, on this topic?
Harry
Wow I have had a lot of the same problems all of you have had and its been so hard to deal with since salt is in everything, unless you make it yourself! I am going to try and find a way to fix this, but until then its so good to know I am not alone! I am a 28 year old woman and its been a problem for me since age 17.. Every doctor I go to thinks salt is fine for me even though I tell them what happens when I have it.. I wish I could find a doctor that had a more open mind! I will be sure to let all of you know once I find a way to fix this!! Peace to you all!!
I have had a reaction to something I ate at the same steak house twice now. I thought it was the preparation of the steak at first as I am allergic to raisins. Steak sauces often have raisin concentrate or raisin paste. I asked about this and was told that it was not the case. The only other possibility I can think of was the baked potato. It is the only place I have ever had a baked potato prepared with sea salt rubbed onto the potato skin. I got some on my fingers when I touched the potato and licked my fingers. I was nauseated within minutes and my head felt funny and my lips felt like they were swelling on the inside where the food touched my lips. It has been over an hour since I arrived home from the steak house and I still have a headache, nausea and just a muzzy feeling in my head. I looked these symptoms up online and found references to shellfish allergies. I have never had an allergy to shrimp or crab, but that is the only shellfish I have ever eaten. Could this be an allergic reaction to the sea salt and could it be anything to do with shellfish?
I would be surprised if you had a reaction to a tiny amount of sea salt, but regular salt is not a problem. Still, I can’t say its impossible, there are too many surprises in life to be sure.
Perhaps it is something else, like MSG, or some other ingredient in the steak sauce that you didn’t ask about.
Maybe you can get a complete list of ingredients from the restaurant and try to work it out.
This past year I went to Jamaica for Christmas. When there, I developed a painful and red rash across my chest and upper arms. The doctor at the resort gave me cortizone cream to put on and told me to stay out of the sun, since he figured it was a reaction to the sun, brought on by me being on morphine.
Now, I am in Israel and for the past five days (since I was in the Dead Sea), both my ankles and put and my hands and wrists have been braking out in the same rash as during christmas. I figured it was from the sun light once more. Today, however, I was in the Med Sea and this time, the reaction is almost everywhere: chest, upper back, upper arms, wrists and hands, tops of my feet, hips, knees… It’s painful, burning, red and itchy. Being in the water just made it worse.
As yesterday I was in a lake and didn’t have much of a reaction since it was fresh water, I’m guessing it’s the combination of sunlight and salt (from sweat or ocean water). I’ve been using the cream the doctor gave me, as well as aloe, but neither seem to alleviate it much.
If anyone has any suggestions on how to calm the pain, burning and itching, how to get rid of the rash, and how to prevent it (besides covering up completely), I’d love to hear them.
I am glad to have found other people who seem to have a salt sensitivity. My problems began when I started to go through perimenopause. My whole body and mind just went completely haywire. One of the weirder symptoms was that my sinuses would swell up completely after eating any kind of foods even moderately high in sodium, no matter what type, especially from things like salted tortilla chips and any kind of canned foods like pasta sauce or soup. Restaurant food is also a big culprit.
My sinuses swell to the point that I can not breathe through my nose, and my mouth will feel so dry and salty that I feel as though I need to drink a gallon of water. I have asked so many doctors what could be causing this strange sensitivity, but none of them have a clue. Like many of you here, this is a new sensitivity for me (though I have had it now for about 15 years) and it really makes eating normally a pain. My family all roll their eyes when I complain about too much sodium in certain foods for me. I wish they could experience the problem with swelling sinuses and being totally unable to breathe through their noses just once…then they might be a little more empathetic! I’m sorry I don’t have any great answers or helpful advice for anyone, but I feel for all of you who also suffer as I do and can’t find out what is going on.
I have the exact same thing Darlene and it started with my perimenopause. I can’t eat any canned food (unless it is no salt added) and pasta sauce will make me miserable. I haven’t gone to the doctor because I don’t think that they’ll be able to tell me anything that I don’t already know. All I can do is try to stay away from any extra salt.
Hi out of all the people with symptoms here yours are the ones I identify with the most. I get swelled nose, post nasal drip. I sneeze hundreds of times a day I also get suuuper tired as well and cranky. I wonder if you have ever done any kind of spirulina or blue green algae or even seaweed for any length of time. Can you lease let me know? Its good to know that other people have this but weird to know that we are all sitting around undiagnosed. …
I’ve noticed recently that after eating food with salt, say chips, I’ve been feeling nauseous. Could this be sensitivity to salt, please
Some people are sensitive to salt, but it is a relatively rare condition.
It could be that along with the salty snacks, you are also getting too much over-processed food, too much low-quality fat etc.
It is hard to give you advice without knowing more about your eating habits. A nutritionist should be able to help you.
As I read the numerous experiences folks have with salt sensitivities, I realize my issuue is small potatoes compared to what I read.
My reaction to salt effects my sinuses. Within minutes of eating, say an ear of corn, salted, my sinuses start to flow.
I like the suggestion that it may be iodine, rather than simply the salt itself. I’m going to begin by adjusting my buying habit.
Thanks for helping me understand what my reaction to salt isn’t.
I have a strong sensitivity to salt as well, I track my BP with an wrist BP meter. the only fix I have found is sweating for a bit, fast walking, arobics, etc, it just tastes terrible if I lick my lips, not the normal salty taste, I have been drinking distilled water as well, the main issue with me is my head feeling like it is going to pop off, if i am active all day my BP is below normal before going to bed even with a high heart rate. would love to hear a response.
Hey everyone..
So for years I thought that I had an allergy to Seafood, salt ect ect. I reacted with rashes, acid reflux and extremly bad asthma attacks. It took 13 years to figure out that i wasnt allergic to those things in particular, but iodine. Iodine is in Salt, seawater (therefore seafood), Benedrine (that brown stuff that helps to disinfect) so it all fits.
Its actually quite serious.
Unfortunately, my 2 year old has inherited this misfortune, just worse. He is currently in bed with a swollen/blotchy red face (he is ok had him checked) and diarrhea and bottom to match the face, seriously.
When this happens I feed him plenty of dry toast, soaks it right up and soy milk – keeps him hydrated as water makes him want to drink more (like drinking salt water)
Hope this helps!
I’ve been doing a little more research into salt sensitivity, and it appears that many people are allergic to salt addatives, such as iodine, which is what you’ve found out the hard way.
Free flow salt has a number of additives in it, which could be a problem for some people.
There is non-iodized salt you can buy. Iodine deficiency used to be a big problem, that’s why it is added to salt.
You will have to find out how to obtain sufficient iodine in your diet without triggering a reaction.