APPLIED RADIOLOGICAL ANATOMY

ANATOMY

GASTRO INTESTINAL

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Electrolytes are chemical substances essential to maintaining ____ in the body.
A
Normal fluid balance
B
Adequate nutritional intake
C
Proper absorption
D
Adequate elimination
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Electrolytes are substances that have a natural positive or negative electrical charge when dissolved in water. They help your body regulate chemical reactions, maintain the balance between fluids inside and outside your cells, and more.

Detailed explanation-2: -Electrolytes are essential for basic life functioning, such as maintaining electrical neutrality in cells, generating and conducting action potentials in the nerves and muscles. Sodium, potassium, and chloride are the significant electrolytes along with magnesium, calcium, phosphate, and bicarbonates.

Detailed explanation-3: -Electrolytes are minerals in your body that have an electric charge. They are in your blood, urine and body fluids. Maintaining the right balance of electrolytes helps your body’s blood chemistry, muscle action and other processes. Sodium, calcium, potassium, chlorine, phosphate and magnesium are all electrolytes.

Detailed explanation-4: -Thus, the kidneys help maintain a balance between daily consumption and excretion of electrolytes and water.

Detailed explanation-5: -Electrolytes like potassium, sodium, magnesium and calcium help your body regulate fluids. Certain health conditions can affect electrolyte levels in blood, urine and tissues, causing an electrolyte imbalance. An electrolyte panel as part of a routine blood test may detect this imbalance.

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