Re: [at-l] Dehydration Questions for 'The Doc-In-The-House'

["Cora Drake" <cora_drake@hotmail.com>]

I'm pretty sure, from both reading and hiking, that 8 oz. of coffee/cola/tea 
- and beer - needs to be balanced with about 8 oz. of water.

But I, too, will look with interest at the Doc's response about electrolyte 
replacements.

jpj

>From: "David Hicks" <daveh@usit.net>
>Reply-To: "David Hicks" <daveh@usit.net>
>To: <thornel@attglobal.net>
>CC: "AT-L" <at-l@edina.hack.net>
>Subject: [at-l] Dehydration Questions for 'The Doc-In-The-House'
>Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 21:05:10 -0400
>
>I have always relied on plain filtered water, or iodine treated water w/
>something for flavor when hiking or working in the heat.
>
>However, there seemed to be a consensus at a Wilderness First Aid class
>which I attended this past weekend that a re-hydration drink was needed.
>
>The instructor suggested any bottled commercial "re-hydration" drink be cut
>by at less an equal amount of water and the brand named mix powders be 
>mixed
>with two to five times the called for amount of water.
>
>There was then a discussion of homemade re-hydration drink.  Someone (not
>the instructor) suggested that when making homemade "G----aid" you should
>use salt substitute (potassium sulfate, I think it is) rather than salt.  I
>seem to remember reading somewhere that your body's chemistry has an
>automatic link between potassium and sodium and that taking potassium w/o
>sodium or when your sodium is depleted can cause problems.
>
>What's your take on all this?  Do you have a recipe for homemade
>re-hydration drink?
>
>Also, there were a lot of horror stories about how much coffee, tea, cola,
>etc will dehydrate you being thrown around.  How much additional water 
>would
>you need to drink (assuming you have already re-hydrated your activity 
>level
>requirements of "x" amount of water), if you drink 8 oz of coffee, tea,
>cola, etc?
>
>Chainsaw
>
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