http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2009/08/24/health-and-family/medical-mailbox/sodium-level.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sodium-level Home of The Saturday Evening Post Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2009/08/24/health-and-family/medical-mailbox/sodium-level.html/comment-page-1#comment-597 mary hanson Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:02:30 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=9345#comment-597 I suffer from loss of sodiium resulting in two emergency hospital stays recently. My sodium count was 125 and my iron count is 9. I was instructed to take six sodium pills daily (I take three) and two iron tablets daily. I am concerned about the continuing diarrhea. I have had a colectomy (w/ internal J-pouch) and normally have loose stools. I am concerned that the oral sodium and iron tablets may be making the condition worse as now I have watery diarrhea that I think is aggravated by the meds. Any suggestions – the hospital medical doctor does not think that it is the adrenal glands that are causing the problem. Any suggestion to an alternative to the salt tablets? thanks…

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