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Body Fluids

The document outlines the body composition percentages of water, protein, minerals, and fats, along with the distribution of body water in intracellular and extracellular compartments. It details methods for measuring various body fluid compartments and factors affecting total body water, including age and fat content. Additionally, it explains concepts related to osmolarity, tonicity, and plasma osmolality, including the calculation of plasma osmolarity and the significance of osmolar gaps.

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Body Fluids

The document outlines the body composition percentages of water, protein, minerals, and fats, along with the distribution of body water in intracellular and extracellular compartments. It details methods for measuring various body fluid compartments and factors affecting total body water, including age and fat content. Additionally, it explains concepts related to osmolarity, tonicity, and plasma osmolality, including the calculation of plasma osmolarity and the significance of osmolar gaps.

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Body Composition ( % of body weight)

Water - 60 %
Distribution Total
Protein - 18 % of
Minerals-7 % Body water

Fats-15 %
160 %
of Body weight)

3 ↓ Y3rd
33 %

ICF (Intracellular ECF (Extra Cellular


Fluid) Flid)
40 %
Body weight
20 %
Body weight
>
- Plasma
15% of Body wight

>
-

Tissue (15 oftotalByis


%
·
Plasma Vs Interstitial Flid
-

same composition as

plasma but very less protein


·
Total BloodVolume =
8%
of Body weight
Plasma . = 5%
of Body weight
Blood all Volume = 3%
of body weight
component of ECF
Another
·

- Transcular fluid-fluid contained in


(1 5 1. of Body weight)
suction and cavities
of body
. .
.

· CSF ·
plural fluid
·
Intraocular fluid ·
pericardial fluid
Sweat
Bile Saliva
synovial fluid
· .
· .

·
lacrimal fluid: cochlear third
total
·

Mesenchymal Tissue Fluid


·
:

Found
-6 %

in
of body water
dense connective tissue such as

cartilage and bone.

ECF
·
ISF ,
transcullular fluid and
musenchymal fluid = 75 %
of
· If plasma volume and hematocrit are known

Total blood
(t-net)
=
X Plasma
Volume volume
Measurement
of Various body fluid compartments
distribution .
Donc
by dyc dilution technique of principle of volume of
·

suitable
A known
quantity of a
dyc/indicator
is added to an unknown volume .
The volume
of fluid compartment is

measured
by using
the
following
indicate

Comma=
quantity of
given
indicator
C = cone
of
indicator
c = amount of
which has been lost
or metabolized .
Indicators Used

① Total Water D20 (most frequently used)


Body
>
-

Tritium oxide

Antipyrinc
② ECF volume >
-
Non metabolizable saccharides
Invin ; sucros mannitol
;
·

Radio isotopes scluted ions


of
·

Nat
,
11 , By ,
Soy"- , S2oz
?
-(thiosulphate)
(Most Accurate measurement of
ECF volume >
-
Inwlin)
③ Plasma Volume - Evan's Blue
· Albumin tagged with Radioactive
iodine ['-albumin
·
RISA (Radio iodinated Scrum Albumin)
⑨ Interstitial Fluid >
- indirect measurement
ISF Volume
ECF volume -
Plasma Volume =

⑤ ICF >
- indirect measurement
IIF
water ECF =
Total
body
-

Total Blood Volume Plasma Volume


⑥ RBC
-

volume :
By RBL with Cr51 Fc59 ; p32
tagging ;

Another method - BIS (Bio impedance spectroscopy)


Non Invasive

·
Based on the
principle of measurement
electrical
of
resistance/impedance
Factors
affecting
total
to dy
water

① Fat : -TBW
varicsnersely with the proportion of body fat
· water content in kan
body mas = 71 -

72m)/100gm of tissue

les in
· Total
body water is

obyc
person
>
-

Women
-
(50 % of body weight)
water value tends to decrease with
② Agc : - Total
body
agc
.

the 1st there is a marked decrease


·

During year of life


water because the all
which contains
in total body man

solid faster rate than ECF volume.


athast 20 % grows at a

in which percentage of solid is much les.


Measurement Concentration
Solute
of
① Mole : -
Molecular weight of substance in
gram.
: Calcium Mol weight = 40
eg
-
-

calcium
40gm = I mole
of
Nall- 23 Na Nach
= 58 5 gm
of
.

35 5((
/ mole
of NaCl
.

millimole =
1/1000 of mole

solute with
② Equivalent : - One mole
of a

Valence 'V' =
'v'equivalent of solute
ionized substance
1
Eq =
1 mol
of
Valency (in case
of an lemint)
: -1 mol Nat Nat
eg of =
1 Eg of
librata
③ Osmote-cosmole
= Imole/no of freely moving particles
2 osmole NaC
I mole
of
Nall =
of
Nati
Bosmote (a Cle
I mol
of CaCl2
=

/
cast at Y
1 o smoke
1 mol
of glucos =

of glucose
(doesn't dissociate in ions)
albunin
I mol of allumin =
losmol
of
subsance has the
One Osmote
of any following properties

① It
depresses the
freezing point by 1 86c
.

② Excels an osmotic pruur


of 22 .
4 atm or 19300mm
of My
1 milliosmote = 19 3
.

mmHg (Pressure excutd)


③ It has 6 023X 1023 molecules
.

osmoles litre solution


Osmolarity : -no
of par of
solvent
Osmolality : - no
of
osmoly por kg of
affected other solute
Cosmolality
is not
by presence of
in solution of by temperature
Tonicity plasma osmolarity
:
Osmolarity of
-
a solution with respect to
.
isotonic
Same
osmolarity
-

less
osmolarity
->
hypotonic
More
osmolarity
-
hypertonic
0 9%
. Nach is isotonic to plasma
5) Glucos is
initially isotonic but since there is

a
piriphical uptake of glucose the solution
eventually
becomes
hypotonic .
Plasma
Osmolality

of 290momlated
ut ions (1 /4105)
-
= 270 mosmo

② Uria = 5 mosm

③ glucose -- 5 mosm

⑨ Plasma protein-ls than cosm

Bosmol
⑤ Remaining ions =
Approximate formula of finding plasma osmolarity (mosm/lit

2x [Na + + k
+
J + Gluco (mg/d))/18 + Blood Orca
Nitrogen
(mg(d))/2 8 .

+ 0 36 XBON
055Xglucx
.

2X(Na + +
] + 0 .

+ k

Osmolal
Gap
·
More accurate method
by fuzing point depression
If there is a
difference of 10mosnol 60 freeing
it is
point depression and approximate formula
called osmolal
gapsubstance
-
-
it indicates presence of foreign
·
g
: - chano ; mamitol ; poisons.

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