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Strict Low Sodium Diets

This diet is only recommended by for patients with severe proven Ménière's disease.

 

FOODS NOT ALLOWED

FOODS ALLOWED

Salt in cooking or at table

 

Bacon, ham, salt cured meats, tinned meat, processed and salted meat

All other cuts of meat and poultry cooked without addition of any salt or stock cube.

Smoked fish & shellfish

Any other white unsmoked fish cooked without addition of salt

Meat pastes, pates, spreads, fish pastes.

Jam, honey, marmalades.

Salted butter/margarine.

Cheese and cheese products.

Tinned milk, dried milk, single cream, ice cream and yoghurt (except as an exchange for milk).

Coffeemate.

Unsalted butter/margarine.

Double cream.

Half pint of milk/day.

Marmite, Bovril, Oxo, stock cubes, gravy mixes (eg Bisto), peanut butter.

Meat tenderiser, ready-made mustard.

Pepper, mustard, herbs.

Soups, sauces, ketchups, mayonnaise salad cream, batter or sauce mixes, soy sauce.

Oil, vinegar, lemon dressing.

Canned or pickled vegetables, spaghetti or ravioli in tomato sauce.

Spinach, celery, very old carrots, beetroot, olives, sauerkraut, sweet and sour pickles.

Other plain, fresh or frozen vegetables, cooked without salt.

Cornflakes, Rice Krispies, All-bran, Grapenuts, Weetabix, Bemax.  Ryvita, cream crackers, Digestive, Rich Tea, water biscuits and other plain or sweeet biscuits.  Cheese or savoury biscuits.  Self-raising flour, Scofa bread flour, fruit or malt loaves.  Ordinary bread may not be allowed.  Mincemeat, dried fruit.

Puffed wheat shredded wheat, unsalted porridge.  Salt-free Ryvita.  Plain flour.

Salt-free bread.

Three slices of ordinary bread.

Chocolate and chocolate products, cocoa, fudge, toffees, Golden Syrup.

 

 

 

FLUIDS NOT ALLOWED

FLUIDS ALLOWED

Ovaltine, Bournvita, Horlicks, coffee essence.  Rennet

Tea, coffee (instant or ground).

Soda water, Lucozade, Chianti, Greves, bottled stout.

Alcoholic drinks except those opposite.

 

CORONA

Cola

American Cream Soda

Clarona

Ginger Beer

Lemonade

Lemonade Shandy

 

+ HUNTS:

Sparkling American Ginger Ale

Sparkling Bitter Lemon

Dry Ginger Ale

Sparkling Tonic

Tropical Lemon

 

SCHWEPPES:

Fizzy Lemonade

Dry Ginger

American Sweet Ginger

 

CORONA

To dilute – assuming 50 ml (2 tablespoons) used.

Lemon Barley

Lime Juice Cordial

Whole Orange Drink

 

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