Aaron and Brittney, two nursing students were having pizza one evening as they were studying. Brittney remarked to Aaron that she noticed whenever she ate pizza, she was incredibly thirsty
Aaron remarked that eating salty foods increases ___________ pressure of body fluids. A. ophthalmic
B. osmotic
C. oncotic
D. hydrostatic
B
The osmoreceptors continually monitor serum osmotic pressure and when osmolality increases, the hypothalamus stimulates thirst. Eating salty foods increases the osmotic pressure of the body fluids and stimulates the thirst mechanism.
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