Is you girlfriend is on dialysis she will also be on a restricted potassium diet depending on her blood levels. One of the potential problems with Epson salts is they have the potential to unbalance the electrolyte levels and if this occurs the kidneys play an important role in attempting to rebalance them.
Osmotic diarrhoea can occur when a poorly absorbed, active substance is ingested like
Epsom Salts ; a purgative laxative. The water and
Epsom Salts will simply pass through the gut unabsorbed, causing diarrhoea. If the solution of
Epsom Salts is high then water and some electrolytes will move into the intestines. This increases the volume of the stool and, more importantly, causes dehydration owing to the loss of body water.
There is a narrow line between purging the bowels with non-absorbed solution of Epsom salts and causing a diarrhoea stool which contains large amounts of sodium, chloride, potassium, and bicarbonate, leading to dehydration. Other factors such as an individual’s electrolyte metabolism, electrolyte deficiency, virus, bacteria and flora content of the intestines can have an effect. It is important to take just enough Epsom salts to cause watery diarrhoea while avoiding dehydration. But this doesn’t always appear to be possible.
Isotonic dehydration is caused by diarrhoea. It occurs due to the losses of water and sodium is in the same proportion. Isotonic dehydration causes thirst; the skin becomes less plastic, rapid heart beat, dry mucous membranes, sunken eyes, lack of tears, and poor flow of urine. The physical signs of isotonic dehydration begin to appear when the fluid deficit approaches 5% of body weight and worsen as the deficit increases.
During diarrhoea, a large amount of bicarbonate may also be lost in the stool. If the kidneys continue to function normally, much of the lost bicarbonate is replaced by the kidneys and a serious deficiency does not develop. However, this compensating mechanism fails when kidney function deteriorates. As the
Liver Flush protocols recommend; make sure your kidneys are functioning adequately before flushing and this is not possible if the kidneys aren’t working.
People with diarrhoea can develop potassium depletion and this is greatest in people who are frequently potassium-deficient. When potassium and bicarbonate are lost together in the same proportion there are little additional symptoms other than normal osmotic dehydration. If the bicarbonate levels become elevated, this can cause general muscular weakness, irregular heartbeats, and a paralytic ileus. Paralytic ileus describes the condition in which the bowel ceases to function and there are no muscular contractions. This is problem in
Liver Flushing because it results in slow evacuation of bile products.
This is a serious situation and you need to read the books written by people like
Hulda Clark e and Andreas to gain a complete picture. It also worth spending some money and consulting directly with Andreas as Hanna suggest. If this doesn’t appeal to you then start to work through the cleanses in the order recommended by then you should have worked out something for the liver flush.
If you’re going to
Liver Flush anyway, what ever the advice, take it very easy and try to attempt it without the Epsom salts by building up the Olive oil and lemon/grapefruit juice gradually.