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If you’ve never encountered someone with low blood albumin, it is a very serious problem. You get terrible edema all over. Albumin helps you not retain the wate
by abakker 6y ago
If you’ve never encountered someone with low blood albumin, it is a very serious problem. You get terrible edema all over. Albumin helps you not retain the water in your cells, and instead to get the fluid back into your bloodstream for excretion.
- M5x7wI3CmbEem10 6y agois there a way to supplement it, such as milk or egg whites?
- James_Henry 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoalbuminemia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoalbuminemia If your albumin levels are low, then you probably have more serious problems than your albumin levels being low, so you'd want to treat the underlying condition.
- abakker 6y agoYeah - the person I knew who had it had cancer, and was dying of it. It is not common, and speaks of major organ failure.
- downerending 6y agoI haven't. But the idiot in me wants to ask whether I could just drink loads of albumin in water and "dilute" myself that way, without all of this weird dialysis, etc. Presumably not, but why not, exactly?