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

Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
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:

I LOVE this answer!

Katie, "not only can you fling it, you can make it stick!" This quote was high praise from a former teacher. Meaning, you know the science and can reel off the answer(s) using a bunch of 75 cent words, and you top it off with humor. I especially love the Cancer of the pubic hairs.

A+:smug: to you!

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Specializes in ICU.

Well you know her sister's husband's second cousin removed took the prereqs for nursing school once and he told her about spaghetti raising blood pressure. So that is the reason for her high blood pressure.

Lol. I went to pick up my son's best friend at his grandparents the other day for a sleepover and she knows I'm in nursing school and she was wanting me to diagnose her grandkids. This happens all the time to me and I'm not even an RN yet!! I politely decline and say the pediatrician would be best used but I will keep an eye on the one grandchild I will have in my care. There was nothing wrong with him!!

But I can only imagine the people that think that they can diagnose somebody's kids or grandkids and the misinformation they spout.

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