I'm sure they have some pills for the symptoms of low salt intake.
There are pills for salt retention/salt wasting by the kidneys, but they are reserved mostly for autoimmune cases like the Addison's disease that JFK had that destroys layers of the adrenal glands.
Diuretic and high blood pills messing with electrolytes prescriptions would outnumber the Addison's pills at factors of over 1000:1.
The symptoms of low salt intake would mostly be dizziness and fainting spells (and at VERY extreme levels, altered mental status, brain swelling and death).
The brain and kidneys are VERY autistic of keeping blood and body salt-to-water ratios to a homeostatic level. It's almost impossible outside of the very extremes to alter your blood concentration of salt by your own actions because your kidneys are so good at compensating.
The classic case of low dietary salt intake causing problems is little old ladies nicknamed "tea & toast" ladies.
Some grannies are so small and have so little appetite that they don't consume above the maintenance level of sodium. This problem gets compounded because they often continue to drink "free water" sources of liquid that lack sodium (ie. tea, coffee, etc). This added liquid volume over time in an already sodium-deprived ecosystem eventually breaks down the kidneys autistic homeostatic osmolar balance.
The kidneys try to excrete via urine the daily free water they are given without adequate sodium. But there are minimal levels of sodium that must also be excreted to produce urine and rid of the free water. So each dump of urine to rid of excess daily free water exacerbates the depletion of sodium stores slowly over time.
So the depletion of sodium and the constant cycle of trying to dump excess free water volume to try to remain at proper sodium concentration ratios leads to the shrinking of the intravascular blood volume and constant stealing of volume from tissue stores.
This first leads to positional dizziness, leading to blood pressure drops with the shifting of gravity when rising from supine or sitting. If severe enough, the brain will lose blood supply long enough to cause fainting and falls.
In really severe cases at end stages, the excess free water will cause swelling in the brain due to osmotic forces (more sodium in brain cells then in the interstitial tissues, hence free water will attempt to enter brain cells to achieve desired concentrations).
The cranium is a fixed container, so eventually increased cell volume and increased intercranial pressure can lead to the brainstem "coning" through the foramen magnum hole at the base of the skull, leading to instant death.
so eventually increased cell volume and increased intercranial pressure can lead to the brainstem "coning" through the foramen magnum hole at the base of the skull, leading to instant death
Add that to the list of 'ways I would rather not die'....
There are pills for salt retention/salt wasting by the kidneys, but they are reserved mostly for autoimmune cases like the Addison's disease that JFK had that destroys layers of the adrenal glands.
Diuretic and high blood pills messing with electrolytes prescriptions would outnumber the Addison's pills at factors of over 1000:1.
The symptoms of low salt intake would mostly be dizziness and fainting spells (and at VERY extreme levels, altered mental status, brain swelling and death).
The brain and kidneys are VERY autistic of keeping blood and body salt-to-water ratios to a homeostatic level. It's almost impossible outside of the very extremes to alter your blood concentration of salt by your own actions because your kidneys are so good at compensating.
The classic case of low dietary salt intake causing problems is little old ladies nicknamed "tea & toast" ladies.
Some grannies are so small and have so little appetite that they don't consume above the maintenance level of sodium. This problem gets compounded because they often continue to drink "free water" sources of liquid that lack sodium (ie. tea, coffee, etc). This added liquid volume over time in an already sodium-deprived ecosystem eventually breaks down the kidneys autistic homeostatic osmolar balance.
The kidneys try to excrete via urine the daily free water they are given without adequate sodium. But there are minimal levels of sodium that must also be excreted to produce urine and rid of the free water. So each dump of urine to rid of excess daily free water exacerbates the depletion of sodium stores slowly over time.
So the depletion of sodium and the constant cycle of trying to dump excess free water volume to try to remain at proper sodium concentration ratios leads to the shrinking of the intravascular blood volume and constant stealing of volume from tissue stores.
This first leads to positional dizziness, leading to blood pressure drops with the shifting of gravity when rising from supine or sitting. If severe enough, the brain will lose blood supply long enough to cause fainting and falls.
In really severe cases at end stages, the excess free water will cause swelling in the brain due to osmotic forces (more sodium in brain cells then in the interstitial tissues, hence free water will attempt to enter brain cells to achieve desired concentrations).
The cranium is a fixed container, so eventually increased cell volume and increased intercranial pressure can lead to the brainstem "coning" through the foramen magnum hole at the base of the skull, leading to instant death.
Add that to the list of 'ways I would rather not die'....