Does Excessive Salt Consumption Cause Edema?

Posted on Thu, 1 Dec 2016

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Question : After eating a lot of salty food for dinner last night, I awoke with swollen ankles & feet I take 50mg of Metoprolol & 25 mg of simvistatin every night. I have also been diagnosed as having Reynard's disease.

Answered by Dr. Ilir Sharka (-4 hours later)

Brief Answer:
I would recommend performing some tests:

Detailed Answer:
Hello!

Welcome and thank you for asking on HMC!

Regarding your concern, I would explain that your symptoms are not related to Reynaud disease.

I would recommend consulting with your attending physician and performing some tests to investigate for possible causes of fluid retention like heart failure, liver or kidney dysfunction.

So I would advice performing these tests:

- a chest x Ray study
- a cardiac ultrasound
- liver and kidney function tests
- an urine analysis
- an urinary tract echo may also be needed.

You should discuss with your doctor on the above issues.

Hope to have been helpful!

Kind regards,

Dr.Iliri

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar