Hypotonic or hypoosmolar. Basically, hypervolemic hyponatremia can be fatal and was caused by excessive water intake. Of course, the treatment would have been water and sodium restriction and possibly use a side effect of an antibiotic called demeclocycline at a higher dose which causes diabetes insipidus (causes your kidney to dump water from you system).
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Originally Posted by jwilburn
Yup, basically cells go hypertonic...or is it hypotonic I cant remember...making the cell explode.
Lysis (Greek λύσις, lusis from luein = to separate) refers to the death of a cell by bursting, often by viral or osmotic mechanisms that compromise the integrity of the cellular membrane.
This used to be a problem back in the day when ecstacy was big. Kids would roll then drink way too much water in one night.
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