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11 years ago
when a person in the hospital is given fluid intravenously, the fluid is a salinsalt solution with the same concentraion of solutes as human body tissue.
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11 years ago
If you filled someones blood with water it would pull all of the electrolytes out of their tissues, which would be a bad thing!
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11 years ago
Saline is isotonic to blood.
Water, even distilled water, is NOT.
Plain and simple.
Water is hypertonic and would cause an osmotic shift.
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11 years ago
Free water would be osmotically picked up by the red cells, which would then lyse (burst), releasing the hemoglobin and lots of red cell membranes, which would cause acute renal failure, among a host of other physiologic problems.
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