If drinking salt water further dehydrates the body, why is saline used to treated dehydration?

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If drinking salt water further dehydrates the body, why is saline used to treated dehydration?

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Your body needs water. But your body also needs salt. If the doctor only gave you water, then it would dilute the salt your body already has. So they put just the right about of salt in the water to make your body happy.

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Your body uses salt to move water around the body, it can’t move water without salt. So, you need a little salt to help your body get water where it needs to go, but too much salt and your body loses the ability to control water again because it sticks with the massive piles of salt instead of going through your body following the tiny amounts of salt your body can move

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The body needs sodium/salt. If it dips too low, your cells stop functioning. (My dad almost died from sodium deficiency, so I’m painfully aware of this.) So, don’t make the assumption that salt = bad. It’s the exact opposite. Salt, along with other electrolytes, is absolutely necessary for human survival. It’s just that salt water has way too much of it and saline has the perfect amount.

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Salt water is too salty.

Saline is “just right”, it matches the amount of “salt” in your bloodstream.

Important to note. Saline is injected directly into the bloodstream and is not safe to drink. Water that is drank needs to be less “salty” than your bloodstream, not the same, or it’ll cause health problems.

Anonymous 0 Comments

I’ve met some opinions that the best option is pink himalayan salt. Content of trace amounts of elements in it after put it to a water makes that that body read it as a ,,food” not something to flush a body out of elements.
This kind of salt has formed under huge pressure that makes elements been captured in to regular crystal structure.
Not sure if there’s any science behind.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Some important concepts

1) Salt sucks up water. Water draws out salts. This is known as osmosis.

2) Your body Is a bag of salty soup. We call these body salts “electrolytes”. You need electrolytes to live, and the electrolytes need water to be useful..

3) Your body pees regularly to get rid of stuff it doesn’t need. Your body will always need to pee, regardless of how many electrolytes that water holds

3) Sea water is MUCH saltier than Saline

In short, you need to keep a balancing act. You need a certain amount of electrolytes to function, and you need a certain amount of water to hold those electrolytes. Your body uses water for different things tho, so you need to keep that balanced.

When you drink sea water, the water is MUCH saltier than your body. Instead of your body absorbing the water, the salt sucks water out of you, and you pee it out. Your body has less water at the end of the day.

If you drink pure, unsalted water though, the opposite happens. You drink the water, your body is saltier than the water. The water sucks out salt from your body, and you pee it out. You loose electrolytes.

Now, you don’t wanna lose water. Dehydration causes a tone of issues. You also don’t wanna lose electrolytes. That can cause just as many issues

Saline is a happy balance. it’s only a little less saltier than your body, which means your body can take in water, pee it out, and lose little to no electrolytes. This lets someone who’s dehydrated gradually rehydrate, without a drastic change in anything else.

This gradual change is often really important, because your body isn’t a machine. It slowly adapts to extreme changes like starvation and dehydration to help you stay alive in those states. Quickly changing their intake (like giving a severely dehydrated person a gallon of fresh water) can really mess their body up if they aren’t gradually introduced to it.

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There are recommended daily intakes of everything things your body needs including water, sodium, chloride, potassium, glucose, protein, vitamins etc. If you become dehydrated you have been losing mainly sodium and water, therefore both need replacing. Sea water has too much salt, too much salt damages your kidneys among other things.

When enough salt (sodium) is given, other intravenous fluids such as dextrose saline (sugar water) is given, the limits for sugar are much higher than salt so it doesn’t matter so much.

Additionally, giving pure water intravenously is not a good idea because if it doesn’t have enough electrolytes or molecules like sodium or dextrose it can have an osmotic effect i.e. Water will move into the cells rather than stay in the veins where it is needed. This can swell and damage organs. Drinking pure water can cause this too but its less likely.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Sea water is waaaaaaay salter than saline. We need enough salt(electrolytes) to be able to conduct bio-electrical signals, but too much salt causes water to be sucked out of our cells, as it equalizes the salinity across the water content of our body.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Your body requires salts to function. Without salts your neurons would cease to signal each other and the cells in your body would stop working.

If you just drunk ultra pure water you would die as it would flush the salts from your body.

The difference between a medicine and a poison is dosage. While sea water is saline and hydration fluids is saline, hydration fluids are 0.9% saline sea water sits around 35%.