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Sorry, but I’ve got to hijack this thread for a moment. It could ultimately save your life.
A number of years ago I was watching one of those extreme survival shows, the kind that are a dime a dozen these days but were rare back then. It told the story of a British (?) family that were stranded at sea in a life raft. They ran out of fresh water and were in danger of dehydration. Fortunately, the mom had some medical knowledge, having been a nurse or something along those lines. She gave her family seawater enimas. Apparently the lower intestines will absorb the water, but not the salt. It saved their lives.
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Sorry, a big NO!! for this one. And I am a doctor.
A seawater enema would pull water out of the body via the colon. And accelerate dehydration.
In fact, a standard recipe for salt water enemas is 1 tsp. of salt in 1 quart of fresh water. When given, it doesn’t overload the kidneys so much as a pure fresh water enema would, because much less water is absorbed due to that very small amount of salt! Double the concentration of salt in that recipe, and it will begin to pull fluids out of the body. A quart of seawater has close to 10 times that much salt in it!
Please don’t post dangerous falsehoods, stuyguy. We do try to uphold certain standards in GQ.