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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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