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Sodium is a mineral that helps to regulate water balance in the body, controlling blood pressure and encouraging the nerves to work accordingly. In the human body, you would find sodium in the blood.
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What part of the body eliminates sodium from the body?
Sodium is eliminated from the body in sweat and in urine. So that would be the skin and the urethra to be exact.
Where can you find sodium in the body?
I don't think our bodies naturally produce sodium but you can find it in your digestive system because many things we eat have soduim in them.
Why is it that I'm losing sodium from my body for no reason?
Why does one loss sodium from the body. Why does one loss sodium from the body.
What compound would you find on the dinner table that is in the ocean?
Salt, or sodium chloride (NaCl).
What happens when the body is lacking in sodium?
what causes a lack of sodium in the body
Where can you find sodium chloride and iron oxide at home?
Sodium ChorideSodium chloride [NaCl] is salt.You would find it at home in the kitchen.Iron OxideIron oxide [Fe2O3] is rust.You would find it at home anywhere that iron has rusted.
How does the body produce sodium chloride?
The body doesn't produce sodium chloride.
Too much sodium in the body does what?
Too much sodium in the body would make the blood too osmolar. Blood cells would shrink and cease to function. More critically the excess sodium would upset the electrical balance of the heart cells. Since the pace of the heart beat is controlled by the potential electric difference in heart cells which is largely set by sodium, cardiac irregularity can be fatal.
What is the relationship of sodium and edema?
Sodium causes edema which is swelling of the tissues of the body. Sodium causes the body to retain fluid which it uses to dilute the concentration of sodium.
What are the functions of sodium in the body?
sodium along with potassium maintains the electrolyte balance in our body
Where is chlorine located in body?
Chlorine is very active element. It readily combine with any organic matter. So you do not find free chlorine in your body. You find the chlorine as sodium chloride out side the cells. You find double amount of chlorine in, potassium chloride, that is present inside the cells.
What do you have if your sodium is too high?
If your body has too much sodium, you get sodium toxicity.
