I do so love the know-it-alls - bad advice about salt

[DianaCox]

@Sheanie: Could you please amplify upon the anti-emetic effects of salt I have seen you post? You-know-who over on you-know-where is telling a pre-op she should use LOW-salt broth, seemingly without any basis other than her own bias.

 

[Sheanie]

@Sheanie: Could you please amplify upon the anti-emetic effects of salt I have seen you post? You-know-who over on you-know-where is telling a pre-op she should use LOW-salt broth, seemingly without any basis other than her own bias.

Amplify HERE? Certainly.

I don't know why this works, but in our dental office, when we have a "gagger" and need to take bitewing x-rays or do an impression with alginate (sure to gag most people), we use a pinch of regular table salt placed on the very back of the tongue. Gag reflex is paralyzed. Don't know how it works.

Fast forward to **most** types of garden variety nausea. Salt, in any form, almost always helps to abate the nausea. You can get it by doing something like the above, or by licking a bouillon cube, if you're really pukey. Any kind of salt will work.

Salt is an anti-emetic, simple to use, fast acting, and harmless unless you've got high BP. Even then, licking a bouillon cube for severe nausea won't kill you.

 

[Sheanie]

I just went and read her sentence. Early post-op, I NEEDED the salt. I do believe that we need salt after surgery for the DS because of the anti-emetic effect. Screw the high blood pressure BS, it doesn't apply. I never retained water in my life because of salt. Hormones, standing up for too long, being pregnant, or being fat, sure. But going low salt never helped my water retention.

If you're retaining water, eat ASPARAGUS. It's a natural diuretic, just the tips. Heart doctors know this, for crying out loud.

Salt is so valuable, it was worth more than gold at one time.

 

[KathyF]

That is interesting about salt. I always figured it was the cracker in saltines that helped settle the stomach, but I guess it is the salt!

 

[Jbandmmomma]

This is very interesting - thank you for sharing!

 

[JackieOnLine]

same here, Kathy, saltines work...duh, maybe it's the salt.

thanks for the info, Sheanie!

 

[Spiky Bugger]

I just went and read her sentence. Early post-op, I NEEDED the salt. I do believe that we need salt after surgery for the DS because of the anti-emetic effect. Screw the high blood pressure BS, it doesn't apply. I never retained water in my life because of salt. Hormones, standing up for too long, being pregnant, or being fat, sure. But going low salt never helped my water retention.

If you're retaining water, eat ASPARAGUS. It's a natural diuretic, just the tips. Heart doctors know this, for crying out loud.

Salt is so valuable, it was worth more than gold at one time.

Indeed it was valuable...that's why a good guy was the "salt of the earth" and there was a phrase, "below the salt," which indicated a less than ideal seating position at the shorter table where the commoners sat, as opposed to the big table where important people sat. You just weren't as important if you were seated "below the salt."

My uppity aunt, while assigning place cards for a dinner party, used to say things like, "I can't seat her THERE, below the salt, or I'll never hear the end of it."

Next week's lesson from old people, "coals to Newcastle."



That said, those of us with CHF and pedal edema do better with less salt than is consumed when, for instance, you eat out three meals a day. Now, will you pass the salt.

 

[southernlady]

Indeed it was valuable...that's why a good guy was the "salt of the earth" and there was a phrase, "below the salt," which indicated a less than ideal seating position at the shorter table where the commoners sat, as opposed to the big table where important people sat. You just weren't as important if you were seated "below the salt."

My uppity aunt, while assigning place cards for a dinner party, used to say things like, "I can't seat her THERE, below the salt, or I'll never hear the end of it."

Next week's lesson from old people, "coals to Newcastle."

LOL, what I could never figure out was who was "below the salt" IF the host was at one end of the table and the hostess at the other.

I do know that back when this started, the hostess sat to the right of the host so it made sense as they were both at the same end of the table.

As to coals to Newcastle...I know that phrase too.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

LOL, what I could never figure out was who was "below the salt" IF the host was at one end of the table and the hostess at the other.

I do know that back when this started, the hostess sat to the right of the host so it made sense as they were both at the same end of the table.

As to coals to Newcastle...I know that phrase too.

That means you are old, too...or you read old stuff. That's it...you read old stuff.

 

[southernlady]

That means you are old, too...or you read old stuff. That's it...you read old stuff.

Well, I DO read old stuff...but I'm no spring chicken...

 

[Elizabeth N.]

My blood pressure runs so low that my doc encourages high salt intake, and caffeine. I like not fainting when I stand up.

 

[southernlady]

My blood pressure runs so low that my doc encourages high salt intake, and caffeine. I like not fainting when I stand up.

Yeah, me to...the not fainting.

@Sheanie I did not know that about preventing nausea. I DID have a nurse years ago tell me to have my then 11 year old drink some pineapple juice (NOT the low sugar kind) to help sooth the nausea she was having. So we tried that and it worked.
But the bouillon may be why I wasn't nauseous after my jaw surgery...I LIVED on that stuff for two weeks.

 

[Sheanie]

@southernlady , the pineapple juice is also an anti-emetic. It is a bromeliad, which, among other things, is a meat tenderizer. Same action, different chemical. Works only if the nauseous person can actually DRINK. Some people are severely allergic to bromeliads. The pineapple is the only edible bromeliad.

 

[Sheanie]

Okay, on the "nausea" topic, I was just talking to a newly pregnant friend with severe morning sickness. I told her what my midwife told me 24 years ago about curing nausea. Eating small amounts of protein all day long cures and prevents morning sickness. She was eating saltine crackers. I said, well, that's no good for growing a baby, protein will grow a really healthy baby. Then I told her about salt. Somehow, I am now worrying that she only heard the salt advice, damn it all.

 

[Terri]

Amplify HERE? Certainly.

I don't know why this works, but in our dental office, when we have a "gagger" and need to take bitewing x-rays or do an impression with alginate (sure to gag most people), we use a pinch of regular table salt placed on the very back of the tongue. Gag reflex is paralyzed. Don't know how it works.

Fast forward to **most** types of garden variety nausea. Salt, in any form, almost always helps to abate the nausea. You can get it by doing something like the above, or by licking a bouillon cube, if you're really pukey. Any kind of salt will work.

Salt is an anti-emetic, simple to use, fast acting, and harmless unless you've got high BP. Even then, licking a bouillon cube for severe nausea won't kill you.

Wow this is so good to know. My DH is a gagger and can hardly get thru x-rays. He usually ends up throwing up, at least once, when getting a cleaning. Needless to say getting him to the dentist is like pulling teeth. Baahahaha!