Spa Day "Floats"

[Rerun]

So we go to this Spa that has these "pods" full of Epsom Salt water, and you float for an hour to reach awesome peace....

The waiver form says no chronic kidney disease people and no diabetics.  I'm not diabetic but I am on dialysis.  Of course the tweens working there just stared at me when I said I was on dialysis.  They said "well it has something to do with the magnesium.

I looked it up:   Epsom Salts a bitter colorless or white crystalline salt that is a hydrated magnesium sulfate with cathartic properties.

I only stayed in the salt water pod for 15 minutes and I was supposed to stay an hour, but I was far from relaxed thinking my heart would stop or something.

Does anyone know if it is safe for me to soak in a Epsom salt water bath for an hour??

[hatedialysis2]

If My memory is right, Epsom salt baths are recommended  for no more than 20 minutes for folks with healthy kidneys.   Not sure what a safe amount for you would be and how much time is safe unless you know  your current  magnesium levels RBC and serum and how
much magnesium is in the bath. I guess you can find out from the spa.   

Below is a link with info  on magnesium absorption from skin

http://www.drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/magnesium_-_treating_a_deficiency

With that said I would proceed with caution and its no brainier check with your doc

[Charlie B53]

QWAP!   No matter how much I love the sound of this those rules strike me out, TWICE.


Oh yea, make that three times.   My PD access site.   D'oh!

[PrimeTimer]

I read that kidney patients should avoid Epsom Salt because of Magnesium toxicity. Could they not fill a pod filled with just water for you? I think I'd get claustrophobic in a pod but would love floating in a pool or on an inner tube down a river. Probably would just sink to the bottom now. I'm a bit heavier than I was in my younger years. The only floating I do now is in the form of Rootbeer. 

[LorinnPKD]

I really wouldn't do it.  I took a long Epsom salt bath for muscle aches years ago when I was in early stage 3 and I immediately wished I hadn't!  I got super faint/pale at the end and my kidneys actually started to ache (the same way they did when I ate supersalty pizza).

Not good at all.  I'm fascinated by those pods, though, and I'd thought of doing it dressed in one of those waterproof dry suits people wear when rafting in arctic rivers...

[Fabkiwi06]

I had asked  my doctor about various bath products (I do have a PD access, but they gave me a handful of those big plastic waterproof bandages for "just in case). She said to stay away from the Epsom Salt based ones because of the magnesium. So, I'd be wary of it.

[Rerun]

I saw my doctor at dialysis last night and she said "Not knowing the electrolyte exchange rate and the amount of Epsom salts in the water she would only stay in for 30 minutes, otherwise I'd be playing with fire.

I'm NOT going to do it.  Why play with fire!!!

Thanks, guys for your input.             

[kitkatz]

Be on the safe side and avoid it. If there is warning usually there is a  good or valid reason for it.