High salt intake?

my friend eats way too much salt. i dont know if its caused by a problem or not, but she will get like a ziplock baggy and fill it up with salt and eats it all throughout the day. sometimes she will eat two whole bags of it. anyways that sounds really dangerous to me for somebody to just do that for one day at the most. shes been doing it for two days now. but before that her blood pressure was going back and forth between 133 and 148 over 80 to 90 something. i dont think that will help her blood pressure. wont it make it higher, even after one day? im worried about her bc she already eats unhealthy. also some of her family members actualy have had really high bp. dangerous like 200/140 which could cause a stroke. i know thats like a trip to the hospital with that high bp. so would this much salt rise her bp that much plus shes really stressed. would it cause a stroke or anything. i tried to get her to eat healthy and stop eating table salt plain but she wont listen. shes 16 and skinny

Dehydration can cause salt cravings. Other than that I can't really think of anything. I know my wife and I both enjoy lots of salt (including straight salt like your friend) but we have low-normal blood pressure.

Salt triggers the bloody to retain water. Meaning it's stopping her from peeing as much as she should. More water in the blood means more blood in general. The increased amount of blood without an increased amount of volume for it to fit into means high blood pressure. She's at the top of the normal range of blood pressure but it wouldn't hurt her to stop eating the salt for a while and check her blood pressure to find a good balance. Strive for 125/75. It wouldn't hurt to be lower but that's considered good pressure levels. Just have her cut back on the salt until she reaches that area and then she has her limit on how much salt she's allowed to have.

There are numerous salt substitutes available that she can have to make up for the change in her intake of the yummy mineral so that she doesn't even have to cut back on the amount of total 'salt' that she's consuming if that's what it takes to get her to cut back. I don't suggest completely replacing your salt intake with salt substitutes though because eating handfuls of it can be harmful, just enough to bring your salt intake down to a reasonable level.

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