hypernatremia

From the linked paper: > One episode of hypernatremia and one of hemolysis were observed in the NaAscorbate group.

Thus you'll die from hypernatremia drinking urine or seawater, just as happens if you don't drink water at all.

If you ate enough salt to reach a toxic dose of sodium ferrocyanide, you’d already be dead from hypernatremia though?

This could be a good thing, like for people with hyperkalemia and hypernatremia.

So can hypernatremia, but we have thirst mechanisms that respond very well to that.

Infants eat whatever they are given and have dumb kidneys, so are prone to hyponatremia or hypernatremia and every pediatrician has seen a baby die this way.

Distilled water is usually given to patients with hypernatremia.

And given that basic filtration removes 99.9% of lead, you'd die of hypernatremia long before it would be possible to get lead poisoning from drinking filtered tap water.

It is incredibly dangerous, hypernatremia sadly occurs way too often in elderly patients in care homes where the patients are weak or mentally incapacitated and can't/don't ask for a drink of water and/or are ignored by their carers for long enough.

Hypernatremia will still be a long way off in normal healthy people.