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Other than medical conditions & lotta meds. i have low sodium. i only drink diet soda (which has sodium) 12-14 cans daily! why would sodium b low??
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Too much soda: That is far too much soda. It's making your sodium low based on how your kidneys will handle the soda you are drinking. Your body very tightly regulates your sodium, so you will mostly just pee out the sodium. However, if you drink more volume of liquid than your kidneys can get rid of, then you end up holding on to the fluid and this dilutes the sodium you have in your body.
Answered 2/28/2016
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