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What might happen if your adrenal glands stopped regulating the salt and water balance?
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Need treatment : The adrenal glands produce aldosterone, a hormone that controls fluid balance, blood pressure, and salt metabolism. If the adrenals stop producing aldosterone, the body will show many problems: low blood pressure and body fluids (dizzy), as well as low serum sodium and high serum potassium from changes at kidney (salt-craving). This can be very dangerous, and requires treatment by fludrocortisone.
Answered 1/6/2017
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