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is just salt enough? Or do we need to replenish any other minerals other than Na and Cl (K comes to mind)?
by tomp 9y ago
is just salt enough? Or do we need to replenish any other minerals other than Na and Cl (K comes to mind)?
- chillydawg 9y agoThe salt isn't there because you need salt, it's there to optimise absorption of water. This is treatment for H2O deficiency, not anything else.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoHuh, interesting, anything i can read on this point? Aka citation please.
- radarsat1 9y agoThis seems to explain it.. http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/smallgut/absorb_water.html http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/smal...
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoHmm, that's going to need some study - particularly that the article says osmolarity allows for water to flow down the gradient, but then the final paragraph says that water can flow contrary to the gradient too. Thanks for the link.
- chillydawg 9y agoThe article you are commenting on explains it in great detail.
- J_Sherz 9y agoPotassium is also important, whatever mechanism you are losing Sodium (Sweat, urine, diarrhea, vomiting), there's a good chance you're losing Potassium too. Some ORS products also include Zinc because in the developing world it has been shown to reduce the duration and severity of acute and persistent diarrhea. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11101480 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11101480