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One may think that since water "follows" salt, when you add more salt to your body you would also retain that water. However, you body will try to excrete the salt. The most concentrated your body can make urine is 1200 mOsm/L. If you drink salt water with a higher concentration than this then you body needs to use some of its current water to dilute your urine to this concentration to remove the salt you drank. As a result, you have a net decrease in water within the body, dehydrating you.
However, even at concentrations of less than 1200 mOsm/L, while you will retain fluid, your new ion blood concentration will increase. This pulls water out of the cells via osmosis essentially dehydrating the cells, despite having more fluid in your body.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 15y agoThe salt in the sea water is stronger than the salt in your blood, thus by a process called osmosis, water will be rapidly sucked out of your blood to dilute the seawater you have swallowed that is in your tummy (until it is the same concentration as the salt in you blood). Thus drinking sea water causes you to loose water from you blood - it dehydrates you and makes you feel thirstier than ever.
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How do you die from water?
the salt in the salt water will dehydrate you and you will die.
Can salt water dehydrate plants?
yes it can
Can you survive longer on salt water or no water at all?
No water at all because the salt will dehydrate you
Is there an example sentence for dehydrate?
When you are stranded in the middle of the ocean, do not drink the salt water: it will only dehydrate you more.
What waters plants best tap rain or salt water?
Rain will better water plants because salt water has salt which will dehydrate the plant.
Why is drinking salt water a big hazered?
Because the salt in the salt water will remove more water from your body than it introduces. In other words, drinking salt water will dehydrate you.
Why is it unhealthy for humans to drink ocean water?
It is unhealthy for humans to drink ocean water. This is because of all the microorganisms in it and the fact that the salt in the ocean will dehydrate the person.
Why does the skin get dry after being exposed to sea water?
Because seawater has salt in it and salt is hygroscopic and will dehydrate skin.
Does a plant grow faster in salt water or in fresh water?
salt water would kill it it would dehydrate it and then it would need more water than usual.
How does salt water affect a fresh water cell?
Yes. The salt water in a fresh water cell will cause the cell to rapidly dehydrate, eventually killing the cell.
Why drinking sea water will increase your thirst?
it contains salt which holds water in its grains so it will dehydrate you. also salt is not good for you insides and most likely you would throw up salty water very quickly and therefore dehydrate yourself even more.
Why will you dehydrate more quickly if you drink seawater instead of fresh water?
Salt will pull the water content from the cells it encounters. This process, called osmosis, is the reason why bottles of pills and other containers that need to stay dry have little packets of silica in them. The silica (like sodium) leeches the water from its environment.
