question is self-explanationatory.
Harmless or fatal?
2006-08-21 09:12:59 · 30 answers · asked by Trex A 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
It is COMPLETELY harmless (almost). And I'll tell you why:
About half the volume of your blood is made up of plasma. Plasma is a lot like a sports drink. It's essentially water with electrolytes and some proteins dissolved in it. How much water would you have to add to a sports drink to make it not a sports drink?
So unless you are injecting liters and liters of water, you're not likely to do much of anything. Water has a tendancy to flow across barriers pretty quickly when you drink it too... so you can save yourself some track marks and just get a glass or two, if you want.
PS: For the record, it's not that easy to kill by injecting air either... it does and can dissolve in the blood and tissues on its own. Many accounts by experts suggest it takes about 200 ccs of air to kill someone. When you consider that the largest syringe most people have on hand is 20 ccs... that's a LOT of air! But it makes sense, if you think about it - if only a little air in the bloodstream was lethal, how could doctors perform any kind of surgery?
2006-08-21 09:19:46 · answer #1 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
depending on how much you inject you could thin your blood so much that your heart and brain will go into shock provided you inject a large amount all at once. what do you think they use in hospitals for the I.V. drip?
it is not the oxygen in it that would make it fatal, there is already oxygen in the blood stream, how do these people think the brain and heart even get oxygen? it travels on the red blood cells..in the form of little microscopic bubbles. only being stupid could make it fatal, and depending on the sterilization of the needle and the sterilizatioon of the water, you could get an infection.
2006-08-21 09:21:10 · answer #2 · answered by Fluffington Cuddlebutts 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This would be fatal just like injecting an air bubble into the blood stream. The heart is pumped off of the thickness of the blood and when water is directly introduced into the blood stream it will rush to the heart. Once there the brain can't recognize what has entered and it will shut down along with the heart because of how thin the water is it will rush through all ventricoles and collaspe cause something fatal. Hope this helps and is what your looking for.
2006-08-21 09:22:04 · answer #3 · answered by The Plague 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Can not categorically say harmless or fatal. It depends on the dose. Water based solutions are commonly injected. Water alone in small doses is as harmless as any other injection. In large doses, water alone will be fatal.
Check out the link below to see what is mixed with water to make various intravenous solutions. The water alone would dilute these solutions as well as your human plasma.
2006-08-21 09:32:32 · answer #4 · answered by tke999 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seeing as the human body is mostly water and that the solution they put into an I.V. drip for dehydration is a very weak salt water, I will say harmless. It would take a very large air bubble to cause a heart attack. I asked a doctor about that once.
Cheers !
2006-08-21 09:24:40 · answer #5 · answered by S.A.M. Gunner 7212 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
this may be deadly only like injecting an air bubble into the blood flow. the guts is pumped off of the thickness of the blood and whilst water is immediately presented into the blood flow it extremely is going to rush to the guts. as quickly as there the innovations can not comprehend what has entered and it will close down alongside with the guts because of the fact of ways skinny the water is it extremely is going to rush via all ventricoles and collaspe reason something deadly. wish this facilitates and is what your searching for.
2016-12-14 09:27:22 · answer #6 · answered by edelmann 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I want to say fatal, but then again, I had a really high fever and they put me on an iv pump at the hospital of refrigerated saline, which is pretty much salt water right? So ask a doctor
2006-08-21 09:21:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
when you go to the hospital and get an iv....it usually is saline solution (salt water) so that is OK bet is also sterile........ i would not inject myself with anything due to risk of infection, or blood poisoning, cause you don't know what is in the h2o you are dealing with.
bottom line....could be harmless....could be fatal.
2006-08-21 09:21:56 · answer #8 · answered by god 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you used reagent grade H2O then you could add quite a
bit with little effect except for thinning of the blood, and
the lack of electrolytes, which would start to affect your
chemical balance. Eventually you would get high, since you
would have less red blood cells. There are people who deliberately
drink too much water, just to get "drunk" on
lack of oxygen. Its cheap, its legal, its stupid.
2006-08-21 09:22:45 · answer #9 · answered by cowgurl_bareback 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fatal
2006-08-21 09:18:45 · answer #10 · answered by designer_bunnie 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋