I almost let loose a hacking laugh yesterday when a patient refused to drink water when I told him he's got water in his lungs. He imagined that whatever water he drinks goes directly to his lungs aggravating his situation.
There are a lot of things in medicine that we doctors thought could readily be known by the layman. One of them is the interconnection of all the water in the body. There maybe 70% of water in the body but it is not readily transferable Water in the intestines could not go direct to the lungs nor water in the blood could not go direct to the brain. There are regulators, carriers, osmosis factors that do this to balance the different locations of water in the body ( intracellular- extracellular - interstitial).
There are a lot of things in medicine that we doctors thought could readily be known by the layman. One of them is the interconnection of all the water in the body. There maybe 70% of water in the body but it is not readily transferable Water in the intestines could not go direct to the lungs nor water in the blood could not go direct to the brain. There are regulators, carriers, osmosis factors that do this to balance the different locations of water in the body ( intracellular- extracellular - interstitial).
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