Salt craving

[Eve]

What could be the reason for someone craving salt?

[devilwoman]

god knows, could be pregnancy,

[yummmmy]

Pregnancy was the only thing I could think of as well....How do you mean? Like you fancy putting loads of salt on your food?

[Scarlett]

The body does need a certain amount of salt in the diet in order to remain healthy, even though salt gets bad press because we usually eat far too much of it. It could either be that your body genuinely needs it, or that you eat too much of it, and you are craving it because your body is too used to it!

[*ALFIE*]

maybe lack of salt in your body ..?

[devilwoman]

i was thinking more like crisps, salted peanuts ect,
too much salt especially on its own or covering your food can actually kill you, so not a good thing to crave, also makes high blood pressure.

[Athley]

My work colleague has low blood pressure and her GP told her if she feels light headed to eat a packet of ready salted crisps she has a craving for them when she knows her pressures got a bit low.

[Tha-Flash]

Careful not to eat too much like me. I got high blood pressure so gotta stop eating stuff with lots of salt.

[peppy]

Hiya, didn't know whether to mention this as it's probably not relevant but my dog started to crave salt, and her breath had a strange aroma and it turned out she had kidney problems. It probably means nothing in humans so don't worry but something made me reply. xx

[kaztuz]

Apparently you can get cravings when you are anaemic. It doesn't matter what you are craving either can be anything, my friend craved ice cubes.

[Eve]

Thanks for all the replies, it's more an actual craving for salt itself that just putting more in food for it to taste better, very unlike me cos i'm meant to be on a low sodium diet due to menieres and hardly use salt before this.

Not a good thing to be craving lol!

My blood tests seem to show I'm low in things rather than high, not dangerously low but low blood pressure, blood sugar and iron count and raised white blood cell count I think they said so maybe they could have something to do with it :)

Thanks for all your advice. Had thought it might be a mineral deficiency or something but will now mention it to my dr next time I see him as has been going on since well before christmas.