Water Softener Salt, Will It Increase Your Sodium Intake?
I have a water softener and curious if anyone knows of studies on how much it will increase your sodium level and does it add to blood pressure?. After all it uses a lot of salt and runs weekly in my house, and the salt has to go somewhere.
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December 26, 2009 @ 11:50 am
The salt is used to clean the veins on the water softner, it doesn’t actually directly soften the water that you drink.
So once a week the softener enters it’s cleaning cycle, it mixes up some water with the salt tablets and runs it through the system, a chemical reaction takes place and ‘pulls’ all the crud off the softening fins and the waste is flushed away and everything rinsed out. Then softening procedes as normal, with the water source being passed over the softening fins and into your household pipes/system.
So in short no it doesn’t
December 26, 2009 @ 5:15 pm
I believe it does. My Dad has one and for the reason you mention, ran a special line to the sink that by passed the softener. You can kind of taste it especially after a regeneration.
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