A person who is on a long hunger strike and is surviving only on water, will have:

A person who is on a long hunger strike and is surviving only on water, will have:
  1. less amino acids in his urine
  2. more glucose in his blood
  3. less urea in his urine
  4. more sodium in his urine.

Solution

Due to a long hunger strike and survivalon water, a person will have less urea in hisurine because urea comes to kidney as a waste product from liver which is formed after the breakdown of protein fat, carbohydrate during hunger. It is not synthesized but the synthesized ones are catabolised. Related Theory $\rightarrow$ The normal concentration of sodium in the blood plasma is $150 \mathrm{mEq} / \mathrm{L}$. Excess water intake will cause excess urination. Because nutritional Nais absent on account of hunger, the amount of $\mathrm{Na}$ in the blood will decrease.

Asked in: NEET 2007

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