A more serious condition, a sodium imbalance called hypernatremia, can also occur.    From Wordnik.com.  [eHow - Health How To's] Reference

It's extremely rare to have too much salt in our bodies, called hypernatremia, (it occurs in about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Junkfood Science] Reference

Even in small quantities, it's called hypernatremia.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2009] Reference

Poor monitoring of use may induce hypernatremia and hypokalemia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

For example, hypernatremia, which means a high sodium, is often expressed in doctors 'notes as upward pointing arrow next to the chemical symbol for sodium, "Na".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-07-01] Reference

Severe hyperosmolality and hypernatremia are known to cause muscle injury by increasing intracellular sodium in muscle cells and decreasing the total body potassium level.    From Wordnik.com.  [I’ll see your ketoacidosis and raise you a renal failure | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference

Apparantly the reason I have been having: headaches nausea vomiting severe abdominal swelling/cramps lower and lower water percents is because I have an electorlyte disorder -- sodium is more specifically the serum electrolyte I am deficient in. ummm hypernatremia?.    From Wordnik.com.  [stem-d Diary Entry] Reference

I was expecting hypernatremia with volume contraction.    From Wordnik.com.  [DB's Medical Rants] Reference

Marathoners had hypernatremia, which can vary in severity.    From Wordnik.com.  [WBIR.com - News] Reference

Blood tests soon revealed that he had salt poisoning, or hypernatremia.    From Wordnik.com.  [ABC News: ABCNews] Reference

Along with water they also need sodium, a lack of which can increase the risk of hypernatremia.    From Wordnik.com.  [WBIR.com - News] Reference

Not enough and you can get dehydrated, and too much can cause hypernatremia, or water intoxication.    From Wordnik.com.  [WBIR.com - News] Reference

One danger is that, in correcting the hypernatremia, sometimes cerebral edema (brain swelling) will result.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Excessive dosage can lead to diarrhea with potential complications such as loss of fluids, hypokalemia and hypernatremia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medindia Health News] Reference

Despite reviewers being alarmed at the hypernatremia some of Burzynski's patients developed, astoundingly he still claimed that he had no "significant toxicity.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Logistic generic sterapred directions model putting for ciprofloxacin stage and grams in hypernatremia tips over the recommendation of the study; vapors awake to placebo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wii-volution] Reference

The signs noticed with hypernatremia are dehydration, weakness, lethargy, weak pulses, restlessness, twitching, seizures, coma, increased heart rate and ultimately renal failure and possible death.    From Wordnik.com.  [detnews.com - Metro-State] Reference

Remission of musculoskeletal hands may avoid permanent, or symptoms may recur virilizing on the cause and extent of structural degeneration. 83 to 5 medrol amoxicillin per organ of substancia weight or 25 to 150 thymectomy per stomach meter of hypernatremia surface etiology every twelve to twenty-four hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wii-volution] Reference

Febrile hypocglycemic hypERglycemic hypo/hypercalcaemic hypo/hyperkalemic hypo/hypernatremia basically, any electrolyte imbalance can result in seizures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hit by Normal, the medicos begin worming in] Reference

It's shorthand for hypernatremia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-07-01] Reference

One huge problem that was noted is that Dr. Burzynski's therapy requires the adminstration of so much antineoplaston as sodium salts that several of his patients developed hypernatremia, in one case as high as 180 mEq/L. (A normal serum sodium level ranges between.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

(1997) Adipsic hypernatremia syndrome in infancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference