What does sodium chloride have to do with renal function?
Posted by Niotulove
These are electrolytes actively reabsorbed in the renal tubule, affecting the passive osmosis of water reabsorption.
Posted by Mr Cellophane
Osmotic pressure. If you take a potato and place it in salt water, it becomes limp. If you place it in distilled water it will get stiff. Salt water will make water molecules pass through a membrane from a lower salt solution to a higher salt solution. The way the body gets rid of the water is by how much salt is being released in the kidneys. The higher salt concentration in the kidney, the more water is drawn from the blood stream.
Posted by LE
Kidneys remove waste products from the body that accumulate. One of these products is sodium chloride. Salts in general are lethal to the body in large amounts. If kidneys do not remove the waste products properly they accumulate and so salt concentrations increase. If salt increases too high because of poor waste removal i.e. filtering by the kidneys then large amounts of salt will cause heart failure.
If salt levels are too high and kidneys are not working efficiently your body needs help to remove the salt by using drugs or other active treatments.
Salt also affects blood pressure. If salt is high in the body - then blood pressure will increase.
Posted by Dr. DeLight
Sodium chloride is table salt. It is used for curing/perserving meat/flesh which it does to your internal organs. People should not eat it. It absorbs water from one's blood and lymph system.
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