"M. G. Devour" wrote: > > She said something about the osmotic pressure in lung tissue could > > be disrupted by nebulizing CS. > > The osmotic pressure, in this case, concerns the balance of salts > on either side of the cell membranes. Putting what is essentially > distilled water on the "air side" of the lung tissues will tend to > draw stuff out of the cells. Like putting a salt water fish in fresh > water, it'd throw things out of whack.
You have that backwards. Pure water will flow into the cells, heavily salted water will pull water out of cells. In both cases the water will flow to try and equalize the solute content percentage on both sides of the membrane. Marshall -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
