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Today during rounds in the SICU, our attending somehow got to asking us, "so, what would happen if you tried to drink normal saline or Lactated Ringers' solution?" We spent several minutes on the topic...basically he told us that drinking NS would be like trying to eat a buncha saltine crackers at once...your oral mucosa would get dry and you wouldn't be able to drink very much of it. (He also stated that back in the day, colon preps for colonoscopy would consist of placing about 3 liters of LR down a patient's NG tube and letting it work its "magic"...)
So, with that said, have any of you tried to drink any sort of IVF solution like NS or LR (or heaven forbid, 3% saline)? If so, what was it like for you? Did you "keep it down?"
So, with that said, have any of you tried to drink any sort of IVF solution like NS or LR (or heaven forbid, 3% saline)? If so, what was it like for you? Did you "keep it down?"