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