Eli5: Why does sea water kill us but electrolyte solutions actually hydrate us? Aren’t they both water + salts?

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Don’t be too hard on me, I almost failed chemistry:'(

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If salt was alcohol, itd be like a glass of beer vs a glass of hard alcohol, ones much more concentrated (for simplification purposes not the same actual ratio of salt in seawater to electrolyte)

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