Eating spaghetti raise blood pressure immediately?

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Does eating spaghetti raise your blood pressure immediately, took a blood pressure and was told it was high because they just ate spaghetti

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That's an interesting theory...

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Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.

Are you a nurse or nursing student? Who told you it was high because spaghetti was just eaten?

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

The high sodium content of spaghetti can cause a spike in blood pressure in susceptible persons...

Salt is mostly sodium, a mineral that occurs naturally in foods. Sodium is the substance that may cause your blood pressure to increase. Other forms of sodium are also present in food. MSG (monosodium glutamate) is another example of a sodium added to food (common in Chinese food).

When you eat too much salt, which contains sodium, your body holds extra water to "wash" the salt from your body. In some people, this may cause blood pressure to rise. The added water puts stress on your heart and blood vessels.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases_conditions/hic_Hypertension_High_Blood_Pressure/hic_High_Blood_Pressure_and_Nutrition
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I informed them that this was not the case and they insisted! The family members did

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Side note: there blood pressure has been getting higher throughout the day

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
Side note: there blood pressure has been getting higher throughout the day
Well, it would have been optimal if you had provided all the additional details in your original post so respondents would have ample information on which to formulate their replies.
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Specializes in ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine.

Sodium needs to:

- get absorbed in colon (4 -12 h passage time)

GI 4.2 Study Guide: Nutrient Absorption

- get into circulation (about an hour for equilibration)

- cause changes in aldosterone level to affect reabsorbtion/secretion (several hours - it is "slow" mechanism

So no, that was not salt. It might be paradoxical effect of prandial redistribution of blood flow (30+% of circulating blood going into GI tract>>heart, kidneys and other guys get correspondingly less >> standard stress responce causing short-time systemic elevation of systemic bp due to peripheral spasm and reserves redistribution) if short-lived. Or something absolutely unrelated.

Otherwise, it is on the same page with "allergy to ethanol, salt and sugar", chronic fatigue brought by eating, wearing and otherwise using anything derived from any animal, "critical, life-threatening intolerance of everything non-organic and non-natural" and cancer of pubic hairs, alternatively known as razor burn. From my personal collection of crazy diagnoses:yeah:

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Specializes in Emergency Medicine.
Sodium needs to:

- get absorbed in colon (4 -12 h passage time)

GI 4.2 Study Guide: Nutrient Absorption

- get into circulation (about an hour for equilibration)

- cause changes in aldosterone level to affect reabsorbtion/secretion (several hours - it is "slow" mechanism

So no, that was not salt. It might be paradoxical effect of prandial redistribution of blood flow (30+% of circulating blood going into GI tract>>heart, kidneys and other guys get correspondingly less >> standard stress responce causing short-time systemic elevation of systemic bp due to peripheral spasm and reserves redistribution)

Otherwise, it is on the same page with "allergy to ethanol, salt and sugar", chronic fatigue brought by eating, wearing and otherwise using anything derived from any animal, "intolerance of everything non-organic and non-natural" and cancer of public hairs, alternatively known as razor burn.

Hahaha- I was going to post, but this about wraps it up.

The only thing that would make my BP go up in this situation is the family.

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I have an interesting condition where my blood pressure is affected by my girlfriend's side of the family. I know there shouldn't be any relationship and no (before anyone chimes in), there is no incest here, but her side of the family drives me nuts! Your blood pressure would spike if you spent time with her family.

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Sodium needs to:

and cancer of public hairs, alternatively known as razor burn. From my personal collection of crazy diagnoses:yeah:

thanks for the LOL...

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How interesting!! Spaghetti?

My thought is that this person has celiac disease? Or some sort of wheat allergy? But just can NOT give up the pasta. "It is not NATURAL to not eat things that have flour in them!!"

Or the person has hypertension and is riding the river in Egypt....so is blaming everything else but the fact that they need to take their HTN meds.

And as a complete side note, there are so many patients who don't understand hypertension. They believe that diet can cure it, and they have "the pressure" if they eat something "bad". They believe that once they are done with one bottle of pills they are cured. Right up there with "the sugar". And what they put "bad" into their mouths gives them a temporary "spell" that rights itself once they are "good".

So if spaghetti in itself is an issue, then they need an allergy consult. Sauce does have a ton of sodium in it, so then the other part of that is that they need education on their hypertension. So use your resources and dietary consult as well. And to educate on their HTN meds have to be taken from now until the end of time, until and unless their PCP tells them otherwise.

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