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using sodium chloride and potassium chloride for electrolytes- issues from too much chloride?

I’ve been using table salt for sodium, CALM powder for magnesium citrate, and purchased NOW brand potassium chloride powder to have a source of potassium. However, I’m realizing that I’m getting chloride from the table salt AND the potassium chloride powder.

I googled it and apparently even just a tsp of table salt contains all the chloride you’re supposed to have in a day and this can have negative impacts on kidney function and other things.

How do you avoid getting too much chloride when making your electrolyte mix? What specific product do you use to get sodium, potassium, magnesium, and chloride in proper amounts without being imbalanced? Should I swap the salt for baking soda (which sounds kinda bleh, and probably not too great to constantly be drinking something that neutralizes the acid in my stomach) and just use potassium chloride? Potassium chloride alone still puts me over the daily limit on chloride (3.1 g) if I try to get more than just about the minimum amount of potassium.

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Answer

I take potassium chloride, sodium chloride and magnetism chloride daily and have for 6 years. I’ve never had an issue w/getting too much chloride. Any excess chloride is dumped in the urine. If your kidneys are functioning normally, it shouldn’t be a problem.

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