Medic Guide

Someone didn't think this sign through. It's from the same hospital I work at...

Now that we've dealt with the commonest derangement of sodium concentration , it's time meet its rarer cousin: hypernatraemia. Ther...

Hyponatraemia is arguably the commonest metabolic derangement in medicine, and yet it can be tricky to pin down. There are extensive and co...

OK, in the last post , I alluded to the difference between maintaining the body's water balance and maintaining the body's sodium b...

In the previous post , we discussed how the body regulates its free water content. Now we turn to sodium regulation. We can lose a minimum ...

To maintain a steady state, your intake of a substance must equal your loss of that substance, and water is no exception. So what are you o...

Here's a challenge for you. In the previous post , I said that examples of ineffective osmolytes were urea and glucose. That's bec...