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Old 05-21-2025, 01:21 PM
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Been trying for ages to get my (92-year old) Mother's blood pressure down, but she insists on adding salt to everything, even before tasting it :-(

Found some sodium chloride / potassium chloride mix that claims to taste the same as pure salt, so maybe that will help
I'd be extremely careful about adding potassium to the diet of a 92-year-old. She most likely has significantly reduced GFR (renal function) and that might induce hyperkalemia (elevated serum potassium), which can have all kinds of deleterious cardiac and neuromuscular effects