"The Magnesium wouldnt be absorbed - the skin would act as a permeable
membrane and the mag would serve as hyperosmolar solution which would draw
third spaced fluid across and out of the tissues."

I don't mean to belabour the point, but do we know that fluid can be drawn
out of the tissues *through the skin*, as in through *intact* skin?

Barb Strange

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