(medicine) An abnormally low concentration of sodium in blood plasma.
hyponatremia
Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hyponatremia.
Editorial note
Too much water will give you dilutional hyponatremia, does that mean you need to cut it out of your diet?
Quick take
(medicine) An abnormally low concentration of sodium in blood plasma.
Meaning at a glance
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for hyponatremia.
noun
(medicine) An abnormally low concentration of sodium in blood plasma.
Example sentences
Too much water will give you dilutional hyponatremia, does that mean you need to cut it out of your diet?
Iirc kidney rate is 0.8-1L per hour, so at 20L/day the person would be fairly likely to hit hyponatremia rather quickly.
Water isn't toxic, yet drinking too much water can cause your blood to become so diluted that you can die (water intoxication/hyponatremia).
The use of coffee enemas has led to several deaths as a result of severe electrolyte imbalance, hyponatremia, dehydration, pleural and pericardial effusions.[8][16] The U.
It was for hyponatremia and was in the Washington, DC region.
Their body chemistry is way-the-hell out of whack, with problems from dehydration, hyponatremia, glycogen depletion, and boosted or dampened immune system reactions.
My understanding is the toxic level of caffeine is so high that you’d die of hyponatremia first from the water in coffee before caffeine kills you.
I ordered basic blood tests (checking for hyponatremia, etc), X-rays - all normal.
I wonder how many of these cases are due to the combination of caffeine and other risk factors such as dehydration or hyponatremia.
Somewhere between 1-4l in an hour, hyponatremia kicks in.
What was wrong with her almost certainly wasn't hyponatremia[0].
I thought this was just going to be about hyponatremia or something.
Quote examples
Or does it produce "ultra-pure" water, leading to weird health risks like hyponatremia?
You won't get hyponatremia from overly "pure" or distilled water.
"While there are no known deaths attributed to dehydration during marathons, there have been multiple deaths caused by overhydration, or hyponatremia." Hyponatremia is not overhydration, it's just a consequence of overhydration.
A few years ago a couple guys ended up in coma at a nearby Buddhist temple after a "cleanup weekend" where they were fasting and drinking lots of water (this water OD condition is called hyponatremia).
Proper noun examples
Hyponatremia is a decreased concentration of sodium in the blood plasma[1]; drinking lots of water can flush sodium ions out of the body.
Hyponatremia is usually caused by drinking so much water that it dilutes the sodium in your blood, not by losing sodium out of your blood over time.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use hyponatremia in a sentence?
Too much water will give you dilutional hyponatremia, does that mean you need to cut it out of your diet?
What does hyponatremia mean?
(medicine) An abnormally low concentration of sodium in blood plasma.
What part of speech is hyponatremia?
hyponatremia is commonly used as noun.