Posted: 10/7/2014 10:36:30 AM EDT
worth $11 for a 4 pak??
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| I have wasted $11 on worse things. Good thinking on the hydration. Many recipes on Oral hydration on the net and Youtube. Personally I would like a easy premade, prepacked,sterile drink. I have fluids and the items needed for IV hydration and the medical knowledge for admin of fluids. Having fluids, zofran/phenegran, lomtil(sp), have saved a few ER trips. |
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Which one? I took a class from a air force para rescue guy a couple of weeks ago and he was touting them. Ceralyte was the one that he recommend. He quoted a study the military had done that showed better results than iv. Quoted:
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worth $11 for a 4 pak?? Which one? I took a class from a air force para rescue guy a couple of weeks ago and he was touting them. Ceralyte was the one that he recommend. He quoted a study the military had done that showed better results than iv. this one.. Oral I.V. GD Says Gatorade and/or make your own.. |
I've been making my own (Gator aid not WHO) from the internet recipe with Morton's lite salt (potassium), Morton's regular salt (sodium) and sugar, mixed in a 1/2 liter bottle of water... works well for me, but if I have any left over, a mold grows after a week or so... a couple of minutes with the vacuum sealer, and you can package individual amounts... I use 1/2 the sugar (left packet) called for in the recipe... full recipe for 1/2 liter of water on right... "v" notch helps to tear off top
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I like the WHO recipe:
- 3/8 tsp salt (sodium chloride) - ¼ tsp Morton® Salt Substitute® (potassium chloride) - ½ tsp baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) - 2 tbsp + 2 tsp sugar (sucrose) - Add tap water to make one (1) liter - Optional: Nutrasweet® or Splenda® based flavoring of choice, to taste |
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I like the WHO recipe: - 3/8 tsp salt (sodium chloride) - ¼ tsp Morton® Salt Substitute® (potassium chloride) - ½ tsp baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) - 2 tbsp + 2 tsp sugar (sucrose) - Add tap water to make one (1) liter - Optional: Nutrasweet® or Splenda® based flavoring of choice, to taste if you want some flavor, find a koolade or powered drink mix(no sugar in it) you like and double the recipe above and add it to your mix. mix it well and seporate it into individual servings for whatever size bottle/bladder you use. |
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Oral IV is 100% a scam. You'd be better off drinking tap water and a pinch of salt.
I recommend Scratch Labs products, or Ceralite products. The homemade salt solutions have a flaw, and that's taste. You won't want to drink lots of a salty mixture, so you won't hydrate properly. Also, it may be hard for a heat casualty to keep down fluids that taste like a gym sock, which would make the dehydration problem worse. |
| Kilroy... the recipe I used for the 1/2 liter mix is 1/8th teaspoon of each ... the sodium chloride, and the potassium chloride +sodium chloride mix... volume wise,about your pinch of salt.... the salt taste is not really that noticeable, even though I use about 1/2 the sugar amount... this summer's 3 gun and pistol matches were brutally hot down here, and I typically drank 1 or the electrolyte drinks for every (2) 1/2 liter bottles of water with pretty good results...I like the bottled water over the CamelBack I used previously to better track the amount of fluids... YMMV |
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I found this interesting when I was looking into a couple years ago:
http://specialcircumstancesinc.blogspot.com/2011/08/tactical-snake-oil-or-why-you-should.html If you search the archives here, the consensus over the years was that it was a scam. Look right at the description: ...utilizes electromagnetic vortexes WTF? |
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I found this interesting when I was looking into a couple years ago: http://specialcircumstancesinc.blogspot.com/2011/08/tactical-snake-oil-or-why-you-should.html If you search the archives here, the consensus over the years was that it was a scam. Look right at the description: WTF? Quoted:
I found this interesting when I was looking into a couple years ago: http://specialcircumstancesinc.blogspot.com/2011/08/tactical-snake-oil-or-why-you-should.html If you search the archives here, the consensus over the years was that it was a scam. Look right at the description: ...utilizes electromagnetic vortexes WTF? Couldn't those be DANGEROUS? If a child ate them? 
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Endurance sports nutrition products are what everyone should be looking at. They're optimized for the demands of elite competition, which means you'll be WELL hydrated by any of them if all you're treating is n/v. Some brands have scores of variations and flavors, so you can titrate the formula as well as the palate. Someone already mentioned Skratch Labs which is tier one as far as the pro peloton is concerned. There's also drink mixes from Hammer Nutrition, Nuun, Clif, Endurox, Accelerade, EFS, GU, and PowerBar. And probably many more I'm forgetting. |
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Oral IV is 100% a scam. You'd be better off drinking tap water and a pinch of salt. I recommend Scratch Labs products, or Ceralite products. The homemade salt solutions have a flaw, and that's taste. You won't want to drink lots of a salty mixture, so you won't hydrate properly. Also, it may be hard for a heat casualty to keep down fluids that taste like a gym sock, which would make the dehydration problem worse. If taste is an issue, add something to fix it. Koolaid, Tang, burbon, fruit juice, etc... |