Hypertonic dehydration, otherwise known as hypernatremia, occurs when the body loses too much water and not enough sodium, leading to an imbalance of water and sodium levels. It is one of three ...

Second, patients’ fingernails grow over time and begin to pierce the patients’ palms. Splints, which can hold a hypertonic hand open, provide a partial solution. However, caregivers must pry patients’ ...

Hypertonic dehydration occurs when there’s an imbalance of water and salt in your body. Losing too much water while keeping too much salt in the fluid outside your cells causes hypertonic ...

Trials evaluating the use of hypertonic saline solutions for resuscitation after traumatic injury have not shown an overall mortality benefit compared with isotonic fluid administration.

On the other hand, early structural abnormalities in ... making it impossible to establish the long-term benefit of treatment with hypertonic saline. However, the study has opened up a potentially ...

Fewer household members developed cold symptoms in the nasal drop group (41% vs. 58%). Hypertonic saline nose drops shortened cold symptom duration in young children and decreased household ...

Inhaled hypertonic saline acutely increases mucociliary clearance and, in short-term trials, improves lung function in people with cystic fibrosis. We tested the safety and efficacy of inhaled ...

Hypertonic saline has shown to improve mucociliary transit time in cystic fibrosis. This is thought to occur through facilitated removal of inspissated mucus by osmotic hydration, disruption of ...