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Why might a person who is dehydrated from heat have blood that is hypertonic compared to a normally hydrated individual?

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the heat the body absorbs affects the iron in blood directly

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Hi there! :)

Someone who is dehydrated has below-normal levels of water in the blood.

Blood that is hypertonic has a much higher concentration of dissolved solutes in comparison because of lower levels of solvents, or water in the blood.

In general, a hypertonic solution has a much higher concentration of solutes compared to a liquid inside or outside a semi-permeable membrane. Therefore, if one is dehydrated, their blood would have a much higher concentration of these solutes in compared to the amount of solvent (water) which would deem it hypertonic.

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