what happends if u drink sea water?

Question

what happends if u drink sea water once in a while

Answer 1

once in a while won't hurt you if you follow it with fresh water to wash some of the salt out of your system. The danger is if sea water is the only source of water available to you.

Answer 2

Water from the sea is too salty to drink. Although your body needs salt, it is possible to have too much of it. See, your body is made of cells which contain lots of things, including water, salt, and other chemicals. The amount of chemicals that are dissolved in the water inside your cells keep a balance with the amount outside the cells.

Throughout the day, you drink water and eat salt (in different foods) and your body manages to keep this balance pretty well. But if you suddenly take in way more salt than your body can handle without enough plain water to dilute it, that balance is hard to keep. The salt water enters your bloodstream. Then your blood cells sense that the balance is wrong, so they send out their water to dilute it. They may also send out some of their important chemicals to balance out the chemical charge of the salt ions (sodium++ for instance). Well, this is just too much - the cells get dehydrated. They need water on the inside, but they are forced to send it out. This is very bad for your blood. It may even raise your blood pressure, which can be very dangerous.

Also, in your intestine, the cells may do the same type of thing by secreting a lot of their water to maintain the balance of how much salt is dissolved in water. The extra water going into your intestines and colon will give you diarrhoea. Overall, your entire body would be dehydrated, and this can do a lot of damage to your organs.

It also makes you mentally incapable.

Answer 3

Accidentally consuming small quantities of seawater is not harmful. However some people cling to a persistent and incorrect belief that humans can survive at sea by drinking only seawater. This misconception probably originated from questionable reports claiming that the French physician Alain Bombard survived an ocean crossing using only seawater and other provisions harvested from the ocean.

The amount of sodium chloride in human blood and in urine is always kept within a very narrow range of 9 mg per mL (0.9% weight / volume). Drinking seawater (which contains about 3.5% ions of dissolved sodium chloride) temporarily increases the concentration of sodium chloride in the blood, so the only way to excrete the excess sodium chloride in the urine is by sacrificing internal water.

Survival manuals consistently advise against drinking seawater. For example, the book "Medical Aspects of Harsh Enviromnents" (Chapter 29 - Shipboard Medicine) [2] presents a summary of 163 life raft voyages. The risk of death was 39% for those who drank seawater, compared to only 3% for those who did not drink seawater.
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"Samuel Taylor Coleridge" wrote a poem with this well known verse. It talks of being ship wrecked and not drinking the sea water...he obviously knew it would make you either very sick or die!

"Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink."

Answer 4

If you drink sea water you soon will develop gills on the sides of your neck. You will spend the rest of your life in the ocean.

Answer 5

Well itll be like getting a glass of water then pouring a full salt shaker into it and then drinking it.
Itll dehydrate you.

Answer 6

Drinking seawater will cause the salt to absorb the waterfrom your cells dehydrating you and killing many cells vital to living and being healthy.

Answer 7

u get really sick cuz sea water is 3 times more concentrated than your blood! so you could die

Answer 8

ew dude. You don't know whats been using that water before you decided to drink it.

Answer 9

The salt raises your blood pressure.

Answer 10

If you drink it you get sick it is really bad for you