gabrielageo wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2018 4:03 am
it's sterile water safe for injection? There's a shortage of saline and I'm tempted to inject with that or vet's saline
Research and actually read before you post in five+ threads, it bogs down the forum with unnecessary bs.
brock.vegas wrote: ↑Sun Dec 24, 2017 12:00 am
It is a weaker solution of salt/sodium chloride instead of the usual .9%. It will just take more to have the same results as using .9%
And this is the answer some of you may be looking for. It is a weaker solution and if it were me, this would be one of the last things I’d use on myself. My top list of solutions would be 5% glucose/dextrose, glucose 5% mix w 0.9% saline, 0.9% saline.
eam2012 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2018 5:01 pm
BTW, I infused 250 ml to see if it would work. I wouldn't do it again. I was wiped out after and I think it threw off my electrolytes
This being one of the reasons why I’d use it last if I had to, which won’t be happening. I hope you’re alright now though.
absolutely NO to sterile water..
It will cause serious harm as water will move inside the cells where you infuse and then cause the cells to burst (haemolysis). Only use 0.9% saline if available or 5% dextrose.
I have been infusing for many years, and lurking on this website off and on over the years. So, I also ordered the wrong IV solution. I purchased .5% Dex, .45% Sodium Chloride, in 1,000ml bags. I figured it was half the strength of 5% Dex, .9% Sodium Chloride. So, I infused 1,000ml. I noticed that even before I had the entire bag in, my balls were really starting to swell more than normal. The mistake I made was doing my research after infusing. Needless to say, my balls swelled up to 20-inches before I went to bad. When I woke up the next morning, my balls were enormous. Before going to bed, I was staying super hydrated. My balls were sucking the water out of the rest of my body, making them grow bigger and bigger. That was 3-days ago, and I am still no where near back to normal. I do have to say, it did feel amazing, and that it was strange that there was little to no migration to my penis like there normally is. Stay safe and do your research. Don’t mess up like I did.
Isotonic:
0.9% NaCl (Normal Saline)
Lactated Ringers
D5W (In the bag)
Hypotonic:
D5W (in the body)
0.25% NaCl
0.45% NaCl (half normal saline)
2.5% Dextrose
Why is D5W listed under two categories? Well because it is a trickster. The actual solution in the bag is isotonic, but once you give D5W to patients the body metabolizes the glucose molecules that were once causing the solution to be isotonic. The solution is now missing solute, causing it to become a hypotonic solution.
While the body may metabolize the glucose steadily when injected intravenously into the bloodstream for normal patients, wouldn't the glucose injected into the scrotum "linger around" for a while since it's basically being dumped into there all at once? I'm honestly no expert on how quickly all the glucose in a D5 solution would get pulled into the bloodstream, I figured if it's just sitting around in the scrotum it hasn't been metabolized yet, and would pull fluids into the area until its had a chance.