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Why do you use saline water when preparing a plate with blood agar?
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Why red blood cells are suspended in saline solution but not in pure water?
answer lies within "specific gravity".
Is brackish water more saline than ocean water?
No, brackish water is not more saline than ocean water.
In hospitals when patients get IV's why is the solution not pure water?
If the solution were pure water you would die. When blood cells are exposed to pure water the increased salts in the cell cause the water to flow in and would cause the red blood cells to burst (this is called lysis). The blood itself is a little salty (which is why you rinse your eyes with saline). The IV bags are usually plain saline, sometimes they are saline mixed with a form of sugar. The sugar provides energy for the body. (it is not table sugar)
How do you oral saline make?
How to make oral saline The word 'oral' means mouth and saline means salty or impregnated with salt. Oral saline is a saline solution, especially one that is used in medical purpose to cure a patient from the shortage of salt and water which pass from the body by diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera or vomiting. Oral saline is not a preventive medicine of diarrhoea or dysentery. But it helps a patient to keep in good health as the body lacks salt and water. The saline only recovers the lack of salt and water. Tom make oral saline at first one has to take about half a liter of pure water in a clean pot. The water may be boiled before preparing it. One has to clean hands washed in soap water. Then he has to take a handful of sugar or sugarcane gur and put it in the water of the container and stir it until the sugar or gur in mixed or resolved. Next, a little salt, about half a pinch of three fingers is to be mixed with the water and stir it until it resolves. Finally, the oral saline is to be kept covering the pot for use several times. It can be kept for twelve hours. After the expired time new saline will have to be made.
What is the mineral found in Saline solution?
Saline solution is a mixture of salt and water.
Why you preparing bacterial suspension in saline?
0.85% saline solution is isotonic for most cells. If you don't care if the bacteria live or die use water.
What makes up the greatest percentage of the blood?
Water. (or saline).
Why is saline drip better than water for blood?
Water will just diffuse inside the blood cells because there is a higher concentration of blood outside the cell now. This will cause hemolysis. Basically, the blood cells will burst open. However, saline will not diffuse through the blood cells.
Who invented Saline?
Saline is salt water, i.e. a solution of salt in water. The sea is saline. If another liquid has a high salt content, i.e. if it is 'salty' it is also referred to as 'saline'. Blood is saline.In medicine. Saline refers to a sterile solution of sodium chloride (table salt) in water. It is used in emergency situations. A hospital might transfuse a Saline Solution to the patient, to temporarily replace any huge losses of blood, which loss may have occurred as a result of an accident, or which has happened during a surgical operation.The person who invented the sea and the person who invented blood must be the person who invented saline.Present day Saline Solution uses the same percentage of salt to water that first began to be used in 1884 as a substitute for blood during surgery, a percentage that matches the ratio of salt to blood in human blood.
Where in the Blood is carbon dioxide carried?
Most of it is in the water (saline) (and most of that as carbonic acid).
Where is carbon dioxide carried in blood?
Most of it is in the water (saline) (and most of that as carbonic acid).
Normal saline is 0.9 percent what would happen to the red blood cells of a patient who was teated with 0 percent saline what about 10 percent saline?
Normal Saline 0.9% is called an isotonic solution. A 0.0% saline solution is called a hypotonic solution. A solution of this concentration would cause water to diffuse into the red blood cells and cause them to burst open. A 10% saline solution is called a hypertonic solution. A solution of this concentration would cause water to diffuse out of the red blood cells, making them shrivel up and shrink.
Which is more viscous pure water or saline water?
The saline water is more viscous.
What appearance will red blood cells have when they are placed in 90 percent NaCI?
9% NaCl is a hypertonic saline solution. Red blood cells will appear to shrink as they lose water out of the cell membrane and into the saline solution.
Why is water saline?
because of salt content water is saline
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 red blood cells are suspended in saline solution but not in pure water?
answer lies within "specific gravity".
