Should a person with high blood pressure take sodium bicarbonate for potassium control? or Calcium carbonate?

I am watching my salt intake every day and now the doctor has prescribed a sodium based bicarbonate to offset high potassium. This does not make sense to me - can someone explain please?Should a person with high blood pressure take sodium bicarbonate for potassium control? or Calcium carbonate?
You have high potassium from salt substitutes. Potassium chloride instead of sodium chloride.


Only 18% of the population shows any effects from sodium. 0% have ever lowered their BP by restricting sodium. I would say, an equal number, have been helped by artificially lowering BP





The point is, you should not be on a salt restricted diet. As long as you are not taking high dietary potassium or potassium sparing diuretics, you should never have to give potassium a second thought. Also, potassium test drawn at the doctors office and then sent out to a lab, will be inaccurate due to blood cell lysis from an old sample. This releases the potassium. At the hospital, the result will come back stating that the sample was lysised. Many times the result is high due to lysis but no warning. We treat the high potassium and the next thing we know, the patient is low.


Trust your body, you will live longer


Pharmacist who's life was almost ruined by LipitorShould a person with high blood pressure take sodium bicarbonate for potassium control? or Calcium carbonate?
How high is the potassium? One thing is that potassium is WAY more dangerous than sodium when your balances are off. The other thing is the sodium bicarb is not absorbed the same as Sodium Chloride which is what salt is. So the sodium bicarb is not going to harm you that much but it's more important to get the potassium under control than the sodium. Don't eat a lot of the Nu-Salt substitutes because this is potassium chloride.