The problem is that since sea water has a higher salt concentration than the
body, if water could travel through the skin, it would LEAVE the body.
Water follows salt (let's hear it for countercurrent multiplication in the
loops of Henle)

--
Dennis Gibbons
dkgibbons at optonline dot net


"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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KNOCK IT OFF, YOU IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!

you know not a thing you are talking about. a seawater enema is JUST AS
DANGEROUS as drinking seawater.

Idiot. geesus kriste!!

From: "AC"
Date: 8/29/2004 5:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id:

You'd be much better off giving yourself an enema with it, than sitting
in
it.

Several cases of extended survival at sea without drinking, using
seawater
enemas have been reported.


"KimDalkin" wrote in message
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I just finished ready Jack London's "South Sea Island Tales".

In it he descibes Islanders preventing dehydration by sitting in sea
water. A hurrican had just destroyed the islands drinking water. He
describes it relieving thirst, though not getting rid of it entirely.

I spoke to a doctor friend of mine, and he thinks its pluasible. The
density of salt in the body is just slightly less than sea water. If
severely dehyrated, then reverse osmoosis would occur, and water would
pass through the skin back into the body.

Does reverse osmosis occur?
If so, should the Ancient Mariner of jumped into the sea, instead of
watching the boards shrink?

Kim