Salt & Cirrhosis

[Peeps7]

I was diagnosed with cirrhosis in January 2014 as a result of AIH, nothing to do with alcohol and have avoided salt since. Can anyone explain how much salt is in fizzy water, labels always quote so many mgs per litre ie 50mgs per litre??? A percentage would make much more sense! Thank you!

[AyrshireK]

Hello Peeps7, good question, had a look up the sums and found this on another site.

Only if you think of pure water, you can say: 1 liter of water weighs 1 kilogram. 1 kilogram has 1,000 grams and 1 gram has 1,000 milligrams. 1 kilogram has 1,000,000 milligrams and also 1 litre of water has 1,000,000 milligrams.

So 50 / 1,000,000 x 100 / 1 = 0.005 % (substitute your 50 for whatever number of mgs per lite and do that some should give you an end percentage).

I believe some of the other still bottled waters are quite high in salt, there was a poor lady on here a couple of years ago whose husband went on a sunny holiday unknowing that he had the start of ascites and sadly after drinking bottled water for the duration of the trip ended up with a massive ascites, organ failure and sadly died whilst abroad.

Take real care with your salt intake especially if you have had ascites, my husband was initially put on a fluid intake limit of 1500ml a day (now raised to 2000ml) - he hasn't had to have any water tablets and touch wood hasn't had any signs of ascites or oedema. He's been diagnosed with cirrhosis for over 3 years now - due to AIH. He is life long teatotal.

Hope that helps a bit, all the best,

Katie

[Peeps7 in reply to AyrshireK]

Hi Katie, thank you so very much for an amazingly constructive answer and so very helpful, it translates the whole issue!

We are very careful with bottled water and spent two weeks in Ibiza last year and of course Peter drunk nothing but bottled water and ended up with Ascites and a DVT in his portal vein as a result. Luckily this did disperse of its own accord and of course furomeside to help to eradicate the Ascites but he was banned from flying indefinitely. This has been temporarily lifted but is still a worry, especially when it comes to travel insurance where no one wants to know!

Very good luck to you and your husband and huge thanks for your input, Anne