Any ideas why salt is bad for a patient with cardiomyopathy ..?

Question

Any ideas why salt is bad for a patient with cardiomyopathy ..?

Answer 1

There are two basic reasons:

1. Salt increases blood volume, which increases blood pressure. Blood pressure should be under control in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy. So less salt means lower blood pressure.  

2. Salt causes your body to retain water. So less salt means less/or no water pills.  

Answer 2

Salt causes the body tissues to retain water.  Cardiomyopathy is an enlargement of the heart muscle resulting in the heart's inability to pump properly or sufficiently.  If your body is retaining excess fluids due to high salt intake, the heart will have even more difficulty pumping effectively causing a lack of oxygen being distributed to the organs of the body.  Thus the layman's description of someone drowning in their own body fluids........

Answer 3

Cardiomyopathy, which literally means "heart muscle disease," is the deterioration of the function of the myocardium (i.e., the actual heart muscle) for any reason. People with cardiomyopathy are often at risk of arrhythmia or sudden cardiac death or both.

Cardiomyopathies can generally be categorized into two groups, based on World Health Organization guidelines: extrinsic cardiomyopathies and intrinsic cardiomyopathies.

Treatment depends on the type of cardiomyopathy, but may include medication, implanted pacemakers, defibrillators, or ventricular assist devices (LVADs), or ablation. The goal of treatment is often symptom relief, and some patients may eventually require a heart transplant. Treatment of cardiomyopathy (and other heart diseases) using alternative methods such as stem cell therapy is commercially available but is not supported by convincing evidence.

Answer 4

with heart problem, the heart cant pump enough blood to supply the body need, the body will cut down blood flow to kidney, then decrease the ability to clear salt, with addition salt will cause fluid retention, including filling the lung, then unable to breath. too long answer      

Answer 5

salt raises blood pressure