ronigamiHow bad would it be to inject seawater into your bloodstream?
Bacteria… Does one really need to say ANYTHING else?
I mean, ocean life seems to deal with the massive amount of bacteria somehow?
Be a better troll elsewhere
It’s not a stupid question. A better one is why you think it is.
It is honestly funny how everyone here thinks I’m posting this thread in bad faith despite asking only legitimate questions.
lime!they generally deal with it by it not being in their blood
These animals are swallowing seawater and animals that live in the seawater, there’s no way it doesn’t end up in their blood.
And humans are obviously found IN water… Just like fish are found walking on land
We were fish much longer than we lived on land.
What the FUCK does that have anything to do with anything??
The fact that when you live in one place for a long time you get pretty fucking good at dealing with the pathogens there and when you evolve later you usually keep those defenses.
your mouth is typically not directly connected to your bloodstream
bro, blood is the reason your mouth is red. I get that we have epithelial tissue but it’s at least semi permeable like every other biological thing
you try blowing air through a fish and see where it ends up
last I checked they didn’t put synthetic air in fish veins at the fish hospital
and when was that?
Mostly harmless.
The salt is far more of a problem.
Then what is saline made up of??
Salt is fine, it is bacteria that will fuck you up.
Isn’t it just the concentration that’s off? 3.5% vs 0.9%?
It sounds like there’s special compositions sometimes, which are supposed to be more healing - I was given Ringer’s lactate a bit ago - but that the default is literally just salt and pure water at that magic 0.9%.
The bacteria in seawater are generally going to be the kind that like seawater, not people. Unless someone dumped sewage nearby…
The living nasties to be aware of are more parasitic worms like swimmer’s itch and toxic algaes, and unless you’re very unlucky with the algae concentration, neither are a pressing problem in the context that you have concentrated salt water spreading up a damn limb.
𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍I do wonder if the average amount of microplastics by volume in your body would increase or decrease
Like OP said, copying from me, it’s too salty to be fresh, but not nearly as salty as sea water. Brackish, in marine terms.
Tuukka RSo... Seawater heated to 99,9°C for 10 minutes (Or to 150 °C under a high pressure), then cooled to 37°C?
Would that work? Probably still too dirty in other ways. Or?
Not necessarily - there are parasites and nasties whose spores are fairly resistant. Depending on where you got your sea water it might not be enough.
So, we need to bring the pressure up enough for the water not to boil at +800 °C. Understood!
Regardless of sterility pumping essentially salty, muddy water into your bloodstream still won’t go well.