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  #1

who is smart enough to explain this to me.

I was doing q's today...got stuck on this one...and it still doesn't make sense to me but 49% of the people got it right ...


A 25 year old woman has a large appetite for salt. She estimates that she consumes about 25 g of salt a day. What is the approximate amount of salt in grams that is excreted by her kidneys?
a. 4
b. 12
c. 23
d. 50
e. 250
f. Cannot be determined.


The correct answer is C because it says that salt intake = salt output in a healthy person. But I thought that salt follows a gradient time transport and 67% of its filtered load gets reabsorbed.
What am I missing here?



  #2

and what about the remaining parts of the kidney?

the daily requirments of salt is 1-2 grams

as long as the kidney is working it will dump the remaining 23-24 grams

  #3

what do u mean? the kidney ends up excreting ALL of the salt we take in? Don't we have to reabsorb SOMETHING .. to i.e. keep up blood pressure and stuff...isn't that what angII does ... and Aldosterone...we dont excrete ALL salt ?

confused.

  #4

for a person to remain in Na+ balance, the amount of Na+ excreted in the urine must be exactly equal to daily Na+ intake.

When a person eats a high Na+ diet, because Na+ is primarily distributed in the ECF, there is an increase in ECF volume and EABV. The increase in EABV is detected, and the kidneys orchestrate an increase in Na+ excretion that attempts to return ECF volume and EABV to normal.

ref-costanzo

hope it helps you.


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  #5

lol..

What about when u take in More salt. Shouldnt there be less stimulus for Macla densa / JG cells and dec Ang II. And dec constriction on Eff and dec hydrostatic pressure and dec GFR. And if GFR is dec shouldnt Na+ Filtration Fraction dec also.. then how can the body maintain this Na+ excretion when we take more salt in shocked

Actually as i was typing this i realized that osmolarity has more of an affect on Vasopressin than RAAS but it sounded so nice and confusing before ^_^ ..

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  #6

um ok ... so basically whatever we take in of most substances...we excrete the same amount. Is that safe to say?

  #7

men the blood flows in kidney again and again

so even if the kidney will dump 33% in pct and 5 % in dct it will do so for several times till reaching 300osmolalitygrin









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