Why is low sodium salt a life-threatening salt? There is something wrong with this sentence itself, which is too absolute. Why so many people recommend eating low-sodium salt now is not unreasonable, but for some groups, eating low-sodium salt will do great harm to the body and even endanger life.

First, low sodium salt is good for normal people's health.

Low sodium salt, also called high potassium salt, can reduce sodium ion content and increase potassium ion content. Normal people can prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and avoid some diseases such as hypertension. Many people are short of potassium now. Eating low sodium salt can make up for this deficiency, of course, it is still limited. The daily intake of low sodium salt is also recommended to be below 6g.

Second, people with kidney function problems should not eat low sodium salt.

Potassium ion mainly exists in extracellular fluid, and its excretion route is still mainly in kidney. If such people eat low sodium salt, it will increase the burden on the kidneys, hinder the discharge of potassium ions, lead to hyperkalemia, endanger their lives, and in some cases even be very dangerous. This situation is not unheard of.

Third, some suggestions on eating low sodium salt.

Remember that it is too late to eat too much: low-sodium salt, like ordinary salt, has a limited intake. Healthy people can prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases if they eat within this intake. However, due to our country's eating habits, many people tend to exceed the standard. Remember, it's less than 6g a day.

People with renal insufficiency or even renal failure can't eat ordinary salt, so it should be noted that such people should pay attention to light and low salt diet and don't need too much salt. In addition, they now need to eat purine foods, such as seafood, beer, hot pot and so on.

Fourth, how to determine whether your kidney is abnormal?

Such people can't eat low-sodium salt, but many people don't know if there is something wrong with their kidneys. If there is a lot of proteinuria, it is very serious. So, I suggest you do a urine routine. If there is something wrong with urine routine, there must be occult blood, red blood cells, leukemia and protein index, or further renal function examination is needed. But you don't have to worry. Kidney problems are not so easy.