Reply #10: My Grandmother's death was due to low salt in 1989

[kickysnana]

She was basically healthy except had severe osteoporosis. She heeded the research and ate a low salt diet. Eventually her ribcage started to collapse. The pressure on her heart and lungs started to take its' toll and her doctor prescribed a water pill and something for her heart to work more efficiently. She got even weaker and she called the doctor who upped the medicine. She collapsed about a week later. When she got to the emergency room she was resuscitated a couple times. Those efforts broke many bones and the damage to her body was great. The ER doctor said he had never seen anyone alive with sodium that low. After she was blind, deaf, bedridden and needed help to feed herself. She died 6 months later from despair.

A daughter-in-law's mother started down the same road but we were able to warn her and her doctor caught the declining sodium levels and she lived a normal life.

Prior to this people who were put on these strong heart medicines/water pills/BP meds were put in the hospital so they could be watched but statistics became the watchword and because this happened to only 1% of people they were expendable because this was much cheaper. But 1% means 1 out of 100 and that is one heck of a lot of people to be expendable.

I remember reading about relatives having to be at the bedside of loved ones in China because care was so poor. It was already happening here in 1989 and is pretty much complete now.