If you are dehydrating and have no access to fresh water, is it okay to drink salt water?
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No, not only will drinking salt water make you even more dehydrated, enough of it will cause kidney failure and death. But knowing how to turn salt water into drinking water can get you around this problem. The simplest way to do it is the distillation method. When salt water evaporates, it leaves the salt behind. Then when the steam condensates on a surface, fresh water drips off of that surface into a container.
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For established dehydration you have to take ors and if it's not available then boil one litre of water add six to eight spoons of sugar a little salt and almost half lemon juice and drink a glass of it three four times a day this will take care of the situation till you can reach the hospital.
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Our kidneys are the filters that separate the waste material in the blood and this waste is then stored in the form of urine in the bladder, ready to be expulsed from the body. A kidney cannot make urine from a concentration of salts of more than 2%. Seawater is made up of approximately 3% salt, so if we drink it to quench our thirst the kidneys have to use existing water from our body in order to dilute the extra salt, which in turn makes us feel even thirstier.--------------so if you are in such a situation that there is no other option then it would be possible to drink small doses of seawater, just one spoon of seawater at 20 minute intervals, drinking very slowly and letting the saliva in your mouth reduce the saline in the water you have swallowed.
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