Hello friends, we are a group of board-certified GI (gastrointestinal) physicians. Our job is to keep you healthy but if you have a disease condition, we will try to manage it to the best of our ability. Diet at times plays an important part in it. This instruction is only intended for general guidelines and not a specific one. Your physician can only identify the specific one for you. You need your own physician’s permission before implementation of any new diet plan.
Purpose: Low salt diet or sodium restricted diet as it is called at times, is designed to handle several conditions including controlling blood pressure, kidney conditions, and cirrhosis of liver to mention a few. Used in appropriate situations, it can keep you from swelling by keeping low salt load in the body.
Warning: This diet when not used properly and at times in combination with other medications can also cause you danger by unbalancing the electrolytes in your body. It is utmost important to consult your treating physician.
In general, you should read labels of all food items and avoid most of the preserved and canned food items, because, salt is used as a preservative in many canned food. Your cooking should be with minimum salt and certainly, no table salt should be used whatsoever. Following is a table to help you out:
Food Items
Recommended
Not recommended
Meat
Plain meat, grilled meat, Plain hamburgers etc
Preserved meat like sausage, hot dog, cured meat etc.
Milk and milk-products
Mild to moderate amount of milk is fine
Cheese, butter and other milk-products that has higher concentration of salt or sodium
Vegetables
Fresh vegetables are fine
Cured or preserved or treated vegetables that has high salt content
Carbohydrate
Rice, flour
If labels indicate higher sodium content
Soups, Snacks
Low sodium soups, home made soups with less salt, unsalted snacks, chips, nuts
Salted snacks, chips, soups, instant soup mixes which generally has high salt content
Flavorings/ additives
In general spices and herbs are fine
Soy sauce, LSG, preserved olives, pickles, Gravy mixes and in general, be careful about bottled mixes or sauces which tend to have high salt content
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