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If endurance athletes get a serious condition from low sodium during long exercise, giving them a strong salt solution quickly can help them recover faster and feel better, but giving them regular IV fluids might make things worse.
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Physiopathological, Epidemiological, Clinical and Therapeutic Aspects of Exercise-Associated Hyponatremia
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2014 Nov 12The study says that giving salty IV fluid (hypertonic saline) quickly is important for treating serious cases of low sodium in endurance athletes, which supports the main idea of the claim.
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