Dehydration

physiology

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Severe dehydration can be treated using intravenous administration of a saline solution. This helps to replace water lost from the body, as well as to restore salt concentrations to normal levels within body fluids.

dehydration, loss of water from the body; it is almost invariably associated with some loss of salt (sodium chloride) as well. The treatment of any form of dehydration, therefore, requires not only the replacement of the water lost from the body but also the restoration of the normal concentration of salt within the body fluid.