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Definition of Low-salt diet
1. Noun. A diet that limits the intake of salt (sodium chloride); often used in treating hypertension or edema or certain other disorders.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Low-salt Diet
Literary usage of Low-salt diet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treatment of Internal Diseases: For Physicians and Students by Norbert Ortner, Nathaniel Bowditch Potter (1908)
"In a second case, the patient, while on the low salt diet, continues to excrete
considerable quantities of salt. The diet should therefore be continued, ..."
2. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"With a low salt diet water need not be restricted and may have some diuretic action.
Other diuretics such as the purines and the organic mercurials are used ..."
3. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1906)
"Observers differ in their reports concerning the influence of a low salt diet in
nephritis, and different patients react differently, but many are greatly ..."
4. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1919)
"The kidneys of our patient were doing a minimum of work and getting a maximum of
rest on a low protein and low salt diet, etc. In the last quarter there was ..."
5. Pathological physiology of internal diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"Since a low protein and low salt diet furnishes less solids it ( leads to a
diminution in the amount of urine. ..."
6. Clinical Laboratory Technic for Nurses by Anna Lemira Gibson (1922)
"Calories Courtesy of The Boston City Hospital Low Salt Diet ("Salt Free") One
liter—32 oz. of milk in 24 hours. Salt Free Bread j ad m Salt Free Butter ..."
7. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Since a low protein and low salt diet furnishes less solids it leads to a diminution
in the amount of urine. ..."