just curious
2007-03-29 00:54:11 · 8 answers · asked by 8B8 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Salt is an essential nutrient (your body needs some salt in order to survive), but too much salt is toxic. Your kidney's remove excess salt from the blood and excrete the salt in your urine. But the process of removing the salt requires water to work. Your body dumps water when it dumps salt.
So if you drink half a liter of salty water, your body might need to lose a liter of water by urination. The effect is that drinking the salty water will leave your body with less water than before you drank the salty water. Dehydrated just means not enough water in your body.
2007-03-29 01:53:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
salt water is hypertonic (concentrated), and if you remember your biology and chemistry, salt water produces a gradient. This gradient is the movement of water from an environment of less concentration to one that is of greater concentration...so the movement of water goes intot he salt water to decrease the concentration thus dehydrating the body...
2007-03-29 01:06:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Salt water solution form a hypersonic solution that draws water from the cells.
2007-03-29 00:59:26 · answer #3 · answered by ebiyedinak 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Too much salt causes the tissues of the body to hold water.
The water needs to be elsewhere in the body.
2007-03-29 00:57:03 · answer #4 · answered by clcalifornia 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
salt absorbs water
2007-03-29 01:02:35 · answer #5 · answered by smalltd28 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because salt is a diuretic.
2007-03-29 00:56:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The kidneys can't metabilise it. Don't ask me why.
2007-03-29 00:56:41 · answer #7 · answered by foogill 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2007-03-29 00:56:52 · answer #8 · answered by -♥, Much Love 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋