What would happen if you received a transfusion of distilled water?

Answer 1

If a red blood cell is placed into a hypotonic solution then the water concentration inside the cell is lower than outside the cell. The salt concentration is higher inside the cell than outside. So, due to the process of osmosis (water will travel from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration) and the water will enter the red blood cell, increasing the pressure inside the cells. Red blood cells only have a thin membrane, they therefore can not cope with this high pressure and will eventually burst.

Answer 2

a patient in a local hospital suffered extensive hemolysis when distelled water was mistakenly given intravenously. a patient in a local hospital suffered extensive hemolysis (lysis of red blood cells) when distilled water was mistakenly given to him intravenously (into his vein). Explain how the hemolysis occurred?

Answer 3

You'd die. Distilled water is a water that consists only of pure water. In other words it does not contain any minerals and microelements. By the osmosis phenomenon, distilled water would flow rapidly into cells, diluting all your microelements and minerals and devastating your cells.

Answer 4

Too much water would enter the cell and the cell would lyse.

Answer 5

Red blood cells placed in distilled water would burst.

Answer 6

they will turn into a turtle and then say ###!!@&**%$!! and then die in a hole

Answer 7

It'll swell up and rupture after some time.

Answer 8

Your cells would burst with the water that would flow in using the process of osmosis.

Answer 9

Nothing would happen