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Effect Of Excess Salt In The Human Body. by ba7man(m): 10:37am On Aug 08, 2014
Some misleading broadcasts and post have been circulating on the use of salt as a means of preventing the Ebola disease.

Salt (Sodium Chloride) contains Chlorine which is also known for its antiseptic properties so it "might" actually serve as a form of antiseptic when used to bath (but I honestly won't advice anyone to use it because it has its own adverse effects on the body).

.........But DRINKING it ?? shocked shocked shocked ....that's a big "NO"!!!

The kidneys work overtime to expel our normal intake of salt and some ignorant individual say we should drink more??

Here below are the effects of high salt intake.


Salt's effects on your body
Salt works on your kidneys to make your body hold on to more water.

This extra stored water raises your blood pressure and puts strain on your kidneys, arteries, heart and brain.



EFFECT ON THE KIDNEYS

Your body removes unwanted fluid by filtering your blood through your kidneys. Here any extra fluid is sucked out and put into your bladder to be removed as urine.

To do this, your kidneys use osmosis to draw the extra water out of your blood. This process uses a delicate balance of sodium and potassium to pull the water across a wall of cells from the bloodstream into a collecting channel that leads to the bladder.

Eating salt raises the amount of sodium in your bloodstream and wrecks the delicate balance, reducing the ability of your kidneys to remove the water.

The result is a higher blood pressure due to the extra fluid and extra strain on the delicate blood vessels leading to the kidneys.

Over time, this extra strain can damage the kidneys - known as kidney disease. This reduces their ability to filter out unwanted and toxic waste products, which then start to build up in the body.

If kidney disease is left untreated and the blood pressure isn't lowered, the damage can lead to kidney failure. This is when the kidneys are no longer able to be filter the blood and the body slowly becomes poisoned by its own toxic waste products.

If you have high blood pressure and are being treated with a diuretic medication, this makes the kidneys remove more fluid from the bloodstream. Because the sodium in salt counteracts this effect, reducing your salt intake will make your blood pressure medicine more effective.





EFFECT ON ARTERIES


The extra blood pressure caused by eating too much salt puts extra strain on the insides of your arteries.

To cope with the extra strain, the tiny muscles in the artery walls become stronger and thicker. Yet this only makes the space inside the arteries smaller and raises your blood pressure even higher.

This cycle of increasing blood pressure (which occurs slowly over a number of years) can ultimately lead to the arteries bursting or becoming so narrow that they then clog up entirely.

When this happens, the organs of the body that were receiving the blood from the arteries become starved of the oxygen and nutrients they need. This can result in the organs being damaged and can be fatal.




EFFECT ON HEART


The raised blood pressure caused by eating too much salt may damage the arteries leading to the heart.

At first, it may cause a slight reduction in the amount of blood reaching the heart. This may lead to angina (sharp pains in the chest when being active).

With this condition the cells in the heart don't work as well as they should because they are not receiving enough oxygen and nutrients. However, lowering blood pressure may help to alleviate some of the problems and reduce the risk of greater damage.

If you continue to eat too much salt then, over time, the damage caused by the extra blood pressure may become so severe that the arteries burst or become completely clogged.

If this happens, then the part of the heart that was receiving the blood no longer gets the oxygen and nutrients it needs and dies. The result is a heart attack.

The best way to prevent a heart attack is to stop the arteries becoming damaged. And one of the best ways of doing this is keep your blood pressure down by eating less salt.




EFFECT ON BRAIN.


The raised blood pressure caused by eating too much salt may damage the arteries leading to the brain.

At first, it may cause a slight reduction in the amount of blood reaching the brain. This may lead to dementia (known as vascular dementia).

With this condition the cells in the brain don't work as well as they should because they are not receiving enough oxygen and nutrients. However, lowering blood pressure may help to alleviate some of the problems and reduce the risk of greater damage.

If you continue to eat too much salt then, over time, the damage caused by the extra blood pressure may become so severe that the arteries burst or become completely clogged.

If this happens, then the part of the brain that was receiving the blood no longer gets the oxygen and nutrients it needs and dies. The result is a stroke, where you lose the ability to do the things that part of the brain used to control.

The best way to prevent a stroke is to stop the arteries becoming damaged. And one of the best ways of doing this is keep your blood pressure down by eating less salt.

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Re: Effect Of Excess Salt In The Human Body. by ba7man(m): 10:39am On Aug 08, 2014
If anyone likes, they should say its too long or no pics, it all about your lives and your loved ones.

Cheers.
Re: Effect Of Excess Salt In The Human Body. by Einsthawkton(m): 10:50am On Aug 08, 2014
Them say make we chew bitter Kola, we begin
chew bitter kola like chewing gum. Now dem say
make we bath salt water, small time them go say
make we add am Palm Oil, after then them go
say make we add am pepper and Oha, before u
know it, na Native Soup we go use dey baff
because of Ebola Virus. #**hahahahaha # Naija
no go kill me
Re: Effect Of Excess Salt In The Human Body. by estyvino(m): 10:51am On Aug 08, 2014
This is coming after I had drank two cups of salty hot water, bathed with it and even apply(salt) as cream to my skin.
Chai chai ignorance is worst than illiteracy.

Like if you are a victim too
Re: Effect Of Excess Salt In The Human Body. by KillerBeauty(f): 10:58am On Aug 08, 2014
We hear
Re: Effect Of Excess Salt In The Human Body. by jerk: 10:59am On Aug 08, 2014
good news for salt sellers.
Re: Effect Of Excess Salt In The Human Body. by Nobody: 11:01am On Aug 08, 2014
The price of salt is on the increase very soon. Bitter Kola is already scarce in the market.

Smh at Nigerians and their gulliblity.
Re: Effect Of Excess Salt In The Human Body. by NgeneUkwenu(f): 11:07am On Aug 08, 2014
Kudos comrade!

This is what ebola jonathan and his clueless team should be doing not sending troops to conquer an innocent state like the States Of Osun while ignorance ravages the led!


Re: Effect Of Excess Salt In The Human Body. by Nobody: 11:14am On Aug 08, 2014
NgeneUkwenu: Kudos comrade!

This is what ebola jonathan and his clueless team should be doing not sending troops to conquer an innocent state like the States Of Osun while ignorance ravages the led!


Keep spamming every thread with anti Jonathan sentiments, it wont help you. Even if Ebola kills you it wont stop Osun election going ahead and the security agencies doing their job of apprehending miscreants like you out to cause trouble.

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Re: Effect Of Excess Salt In The Human Body. by Nobody: 11:16am On Aug 08, 2014
Imagine the news ridicule around the world today. ‘Nigerians consuming salt to avoid Ebola’ - So embarrassing! embarassed

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