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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Salt water is too salty and saline is just right.

When you are dehydrated you also lose salts/electrolytes which are not exactly the same as sea water, for example.

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