lots of talking about salt

Yesterday we talked about approach to diagnosis of Hyponatremia

See the previous post on this : HERE

Also: take a lot at a review on hyponatremia.

Its important to note that volume depletion should results in HYPERnatremia. Hypovolemic hyponatremia is a result of replacing your loss with hypo-osmolar fluid (ie water or juice)

A special thanks to Dr. Amna Ahmed for reviewing the treatment of hyponatremia this morning as well as discussing HYPERnatremia.

HERE is a review on hypernatremia.