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How does the use of distilled water in place of saline solution in the human body upset the bodies homeostasis?
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∙ 13y ago
salt has the same water concentrationas tissues so if u disrupt it it will not be able to function. salt has the same water concentrationas tissues so if u disrupt it it will not be able to function. salt has the same water concentrationas tissues so if u disrupt it it will not be able to function.
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 13y agoThe cells of the body draw nutrients from the blood stream by way of static pressure. The general way this works is that a substance naturally moves through a semi-permeable membrane from an area of higher concentration to and area of lower concentration. Normally, a cell uses sugar by breaking it down into other molecules (like CO2). As the sugar is used up, and CO2 is accumulated, there is a 'static overpressure' built up between the inside of the cell and the body's blood stream, which carries the nutrients to the cell. The blood has a higher concentration of sugar and 'pushes' the sugar into the cell which has a lower amount of sugar in it. Likewise, there is more CO2 in the cell than in the bloodstream, and it is 'pushed' into the veins to be carried to the lungs.
Normal saline solution matches the bloodstream's nutrient concentration, keeping the static pressure balanced. If distilled water was used in an IV, the concentration of nutrients in the blood would drop dramatically and the body's cells would 'push' their nutrients into the blood to balance it again. The cells now have no way to make energy, and basically starve themselves.
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Explain how the use of distilled water in place of this saline solution would be expected to upset the patient's homeostasis?
The saline solution used in hospital I.V.s is a solution with about the same water concentration as the human body. If distilled water were used instead, the imbalance of concentrations of salt between the water and the body would cause cells to react, and the process of osmosis to cause them to bloat up with water, potentially damaging them.
How can you use saline in a sentence?
He washed his contact lenses in the saline solution. The IV was a saline drip to keep him hydrated.
What do saline solutions evaporated taste like?
Saline solutions are ones that contain salt...if you evaporate a saline solution, you recover the dissolved salt, therefore an evaporated saline solution tastes like the salt that it is.
Is Saline a suspension?
that question does not make sense... do you mean are the salts in a saline SOLUTION in suspension? No... they are in solution. If you tried to seperate the salt from the water you could not unless you bolied off the water/cooled it down
What is an example of a hypotonic solution?
A hypotonic solution has less than normal tension: hypo = less, and tonic = tonicity, the concentration of solute. Examples of hypotonic solutions: (1) Sports drinks that contain salts / electrolytes (2) physiologically: a. 0.45% NaCl (half-normal saline solution); since normal saline is 0.9% NaCl, any solution less than 9% is hypotonic b. dextrose 2.5% in water c. dextrose 2% in water
How does distilled water in place of the saline solution be expected to upset the patient's homeostasis?
I Dont Know, Why are you asking me?
How does the use of distilled water in place of the saline solution would be expected to upset the patients homeostasis?
because distilled water does not have any dissolved salts in it
How do you prepare a Normal Saline Solution being use in 100ml of distilled water?
Put 0.9g of Nacl in a beaker and add distilled water to make up to 100ml. that is 0.9% Nacl (Normal saline Solution) From Tade Olubunmi Ademola
Why is saline used in microbiology?
Saline is sterilized and used to suspend and wash bacterial cells. Saline is used as distilled water would cause the cells to lyse due to osmosis. The saline solution is a solution of salt and water, it contains no source of energy.
How do you make a 9 percent saline solution?
To make a 9 percent saline solution, start by preparing a 100 percent salt solution. With a bottle of 100 percent salt water, take 9 percent and dilute with distilled water to make a 9 percent saline solution.
Why give a dehydrated person saline solution in an iv rather than distilled water?
Saline is distilled water with salt added into it. Dehydration isn't just the excessive loss of body water, it's also an electrolytic imbalance. When the body is dehydrated, salts have been depleted.
Is eye wash distilled water?
Eye wash is usually sterile saline solution so that it does not burn or sting when placed on the eye.
What is physiodose NaCl 9?
This a saline solution with the concentration of 0,9 g NaCl/100 mL distilled water. This is a isotonic solution; the meaning is that the osmotic pressure of the this solution is equal to the osmotic pressure of the blood serum.
Who invented the saline solution?
Sydney Ringer invented the saline solution.
Why is a dehydrated individual given a saline solution rather than water?
The fluid in our bodies is composed of 0.9 Sodium Chloride. An individual will recover from dehydration much quicker when given a saline solution rather than just plain water.
What type of solution is saline solution?
Saline is a homogenous solution of salt in water.
What is a saline solid or liquid or solution?
saline solution is salted water with 0.85% of salt
