Water absorption issues of some weird sort

If I had Babs I knocked it out at first symptoms with Tindazole and Nitazoxinide rotations but I cant be sure. I only had night sweats and waking at 3am for a short while. No air hunger, chest pain, but not air hunger.

Protozoans are bad about causing water/dehydration issues.

Here are a few tidbits to think about. Water and sodium go hand in hand. If you are low on water (dehydrated), then you are low on sodium. Drinking more water won't necessarily make you more hydrated. It makes you urinate more and that causes you to lose more sodium. They go hand in hand.

Sodium and potassium are opposites. By that, I mean that when you excrete sodium, you keep potassium. When you excrete potassium, you keep sodium. You rarely can increase sodium levels by drinking. Sodium is best increased by eating. You can increase water levels by drinking but when you do, adequate levels of sodium need to be ingested.

This leads to another point. What is the appropriate level of sodium to ingest? First of all, sodium, or salt intake is actually a bad thing. Our body was not designed to eat a lot of sodium. With that said, our bodies have been ingesting salt all of our lives and have made the necessary adjustments to handle a higher salt intake. How much is too much? How much is too little? We don't know. A chart may say "eat less than 2 grams a day" and you will be fine. I know you may have seen such a chart but it is wrong. As individuals, our sodium needs vary. To those who have hard stools and dried up fingers, you aren't getting enough sodium and water. You are likely excreting too much or the parasites are harboring more water and leaving you deficient. As mentioned in Lapis post, it could be a potassium deficiency where your body is holding on to potassium and excreting sodium. Who knows, but your body doesn't have what it needs.

Too little sodium is a bad thing just like too much sodium is a bad thing. I can't speak for everyone but when my sodium gets altered, I almost always have a lithium deficiency. Lithium and sodium act very similarly around the cell because of the positive charge and low dose lithium treatment may be beneficial in stabilizing sodium levels. 5mg twice a day would be sufficient for most.

Food affects you water balance as well. It takes water to break down protein(nitrogen) so the more protein you eat, the lower your water level will be. Reduce protein intake and your water level can increase. Carbs and water tend to go hand in hand. You eat more carbs, you hold more water. You hold more water, you hold more sodium. Plant based carbs are higher in potassium so their excretion holds more sodium.

I can’t find anything without corn products in it - dextrose, dextrates, citric acid, natural flavors.

And my doc hasn’t called me, I assume he won’t on the weekend. Gosh, I hope I don’t drop dead of dehydration / malnutrition by the time someone helps me

At least the Babs stuff has gone away. That helps.

(Note the crabbiness- something I took had corn in it!)

You can read the ingredients label on Amazon. Silica, potassium, ions, mostly. Sadly for me, also dextrates

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Girlie said...

ChickenArise said...
No air hunger, chest pain, but not air hunger.

But did you have air hunger?

No never. Chest pain that more closely resembled what is common to Morgellons sufferers. Reduced lung capacity but it didnt ever feel like air hunger. The chest pain is mostly gone now. If it resurfaces it is not as intense as it once was and resolves more quickly.