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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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CORONA
Cola
American Cream Soda
Clarona
Ginger Beer
Lemonade
Lemonade Shandy |
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+ HUNTS:
Sparkling American Ginger Ale
Sparkling Bitter Lemon
Dry Ginger Ale
Sparkling Tonic
Tropical Lemon |
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SCHWEPPES:
Fizzy Lemonade
Dry Ginger
American Sweet Ginger |
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CORONA
To dilute – assuming 50 ml (2 tablespoons) used.
Lemon Barley
Lime Juice Cordial
Whole Orange Drink |
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