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Re:IV Bags May Not Be Necessary to Rehydrate Patients by tomp on Thursday February 22, 2018 @08:28AM (#16437367)
is just salt enough? Or do we need to replenish any other minerals other than Na and Cl (K comes to mind)?
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Re:IV Bags May Not Be Necessary to Rehydrate Patients by chillydawg on Thursday February 22, 2018 @08:39AM (#16437427)
The salt isn't there because you need salt, it's there to optimise absorption of water. This is treatment for H2O deficiency, not anything else.
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Re:IV Bags May Not Be Necessary to Rehydrate Patients by pbhjpbhj on Thursday February 22, 2018 @09:11AM (#16437612)
Huh, interesting, anything i can read on this point? Aka citation please.
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Re:IV Bags May Not Be Necessary to Rehydrate Patients by chillydawg on Thursday February 22, 2018 @12:01PM (#16439051)
The article you are commenting on explains it in great detail.
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Re:IV Bags May Not Be Necessary to Rehydrate Patients by radarsat1 on Thursday February 22, 2018 @09:49AM (#16437859)
This seems to explain it.. http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/smal...
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Re:IV Bags May Not Be Necessary to Rehydrate Patients by pbhjpbhj on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:27AM (#16438151)
Hmm, that's going to need some study - particularly that the article says osmolarity allows for water to flow down the gradient, but then the final paragraph says that water can flow contrary to the gradient too.

Thanks for the link.

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Re:IV Bags May Not Be Necessary to Rehydrate Patients by J_Sherz on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:50AM (#16438346)
Potassium is also important, whatever mechanism you are losing Sodium (Sweat, urine, diarrhea, vomiting), there's a good chance you're losing Potassium too. Some ORS products also include Zinc because in the developing world it has been shown to reduce the duration and severity of acute and persistent diarrhea. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11101480
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