Treatment of excessive sweating?

hi

i just checked the notes, u are right. sweating causes loss of hypotonic fluid. but perhaps giving isotonic fluid is always first choice. when it doesnt work u may give colloids (hypotonic).

im not sure. but yeah i feel the need for isotonic fluid in a dehydrated patient is to ensure the rapid infuse of colloid wont cause him to become hypervolemia n cause other complications (namely renal)

woohooo!!

i found this while trying to answer ur renal O2 query.

Normal (isotonic) saline {0.9%) approximates plasma tonicity (POsm). It is Infused in patients to maintain the blood pressure when there is a significant loss of sodium-containing fluid (e.g., blood loss, diarrhea, sweat). As expected, some ofthe normal saline enters the Interstitial compartment
and some remains in the vascular compartment, the latter being responsible for the increase in blood pressure. Other solutions that are used that are more expensive include Ringer's lactate and 5% albumin (remains in the vascular compartment).

found this in goljan rapid review page 56.

jst to add:

my anesthesiology lecturer reminded us that first-line of treatment should always be isotonic saline, if it doesnt work then u go ahead with colloids. this is because most of the time patients come in with burns, diarrhea n dehydration n we cannot assume they have lost Na until the lab results return.

yes kushboo is rite

basically we have to understand that giving dextrose or a colloid solution might cause the a pulling of fluid from the intracellular space IF the patient doesnt have loss of protein or natrium. so we give NS first., then as soon as lab results are in n looking at ptt's condition, IF needed we infuse dextrose instead. thats what the anesthesiologist said. when in emergency we must think life saving first. n NS does this (even if he lost protein, NS will hold him alive for a bit. better than giving dextrose n cause more damage)