This is a pretty amazing site, so much information................
After having emergency surgery ( August 2021), due to UC, I woke with a stoma. I had been so far out of it, ( I lost days where I recall nothing, remember going for scans, getting on the scanning table but nothing more and so on), waking with the stoma was a shock, however have come to terms with it reasonably quickly ( so I am told). I was told by the dietician to include at least 2 teaspoons of salt in my diet daily. The stoma nurse ( incredible people) told me to eat a lot of snacks, salty snacks, I struggle with this as I have never been a grazer. I now find I am dealing with swollen ankles and feet, though I walk a lot, nothing seems to be sorting this out. As soon as I get up of a morning , after showering I need to put footwear on pretty quickly else I can't get them on, I can feel my feet swell when I take footwear off. Is it the salt causing this? Is so much salt really necessary? ( have never had it explained to me why so much salt, though I have asked).