Explain fluid in the body to me
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From personal experience quite often down to the Lymphatic System :-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphatic_system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphatic_system
Pulmonary Odema (ignore the American spelling below) here you go mate;
"Cardiogenic pulmonary edema is a type of pulmonary edema caused by increased pressures in the heart.
This condition usually occurs when the diseased or overworked left ventricle isn't able to pump out enough of the blood it receives from your lungs (congestive heart failure). As a result, pressure increases inside the left atrium and then in the veins and capillaries in your lungs, causing fluid to be pushed through the capillary walls into the air sacs."
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pulm...
The lymphatics system is a complementary open circulatory system. In context best thought of as drainage. In this instance it's coming directly from the blood vessels however.
"Cardiogenic pulmonary edema is a type of pulmonary edema caused by increased pressures in the heart.
This condition usually occurs when the diseased or overworked left ventricle isn't able to pump out enough of the blood it receives from your lungs (congestive heart failure). As a result, pressure increases inside the left atrium and then in the veins and capillaries in your lungs, causing fluid to be pushed through the capillary walls into the air sacs."
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pulm...
The lymphatics system is a complementary open circulatory system. In context best thought of as drainage. In this instance it's coming directly from the blood vessels however.
Edited by Prof Prolapse on Monday 1st September 16:12
Prof Prolapse said:
Pulmonary Odema (ignore the American spelling below) here you go mate;
"Cardiogenic pulmonary edema is a type of pulmonary edema caused by increased pressures in the heart.
This condition usually occurs when the diseased or overworked left ventricle isn't able to pump out enough of the blood it receives from your lungs (congestive heart failure). As a result, pressure increases inside the left atrium and then in the veins and capillaries in your lungs, causing fluid to be pushed through the capillary walls into the air sacs."
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pulm...
The lymphatics system is a complementary open circulatory system. In context best thought of as drainage. In this instance it's coming directly from the blood vessels however.
That's fluid on the lungs due to a weak heart."Cardiogenic pulmonary edema is a type of pulmonary edema caused by increased pressures in the heart.
This condition usually occurs when the diseased or overworked left ventricle isn't able to pump out enough of the blood it receives from your lungs (congestive heart failure). As a result, pressure increases inside the left atrium and then in the veins and capillaries in your lungs, causing fluid to be pushed through the capillary walls into the air sacs."
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pulm...
The lymphatics system is a complementary open circulatory system. In context best thought of as drainage. In this instance it's coming directly from the blood vessels however.
Edited by Prof Prolapse on Monday 1st September 16:12
Fluid on the legs principally and due to gravity is peripheral oedema and is also due to weak heart or simple fluid overload in combination with a weak heart. The heart has four chambers and each pair does either the lungs or the body.
In the vast majority of cases fluid not being cleared and leaking under the skin (oedema) is due to a weak heart and NOT lymphatics
And that's from a knuckle dragger.....
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