(This is not intended as medical advice. It is a summary from my personal experience and research I’ve read.)
Various things can cause dehydration — overexertion, exposure, diarrhea, vomiting, blood loss. Drinking plain water for dehydration is a lousy idea; it can send you right into hyponatremia (low sodium, which in my personal experience is a huge big bunch of no fun) or hypokalemia (low potassium, which is reportedly worse).
The standard “everyone knows about it” fix for this is Gatorade — but Gatorade is full of way too much sugar. The somewhat more medical version is Pedialyte, recommended for keeping kids with diarrhea from dehydrating — but you might not have that on hand in the house.
A jury-rigged kitchen-counter substitute can be had as follows (pardon my barbaric American units):
1 quart clean water 1 to 2 tablespoons white sugar ½ teaspoon table salt ½ teaspoon baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) ¼ teaspoon salt substitute (potassium chloride)
Leave out the KCl if you don’t have it (but it’s worth keeping around). Don’t leave out the bicarbonate.
(This is not intended as medical advice. It is a summary from my personal experience and research I’ve read.)
Various things can cause dehydration — overexertion, exposure, diarrhea, vomiting, blood loss. Drinking plain water for dehydration is a lousy idea; it can send you right into hyponatremia (low sodium, which in my personal experience is a huge big bunch of no fun) or hypokalemia (low potassium, which is reportedly worse).
The standard “everyone knows about it” fix for this is Gatorade — but Gatorade is full of way too much sugar. The somewhat more medical version is Pedialyte, recommended for keeping kids with diarrhea from dehydrating — but you might not have that on hand in the house.
A jury-rigged kitchen-counter substitute can be had as follows (pardon my barbaric American units):
1 quart clean water
1 to 2 tablespoons white sugar
½ teaspoon table salt
½ teaspoon baking soda (sodium bicarbonate)
¼ teaspoon salt substitute (potassium chloride)
Leave out the KCl if you don’t have it (but it’s worth keeping around). Don’t leave out the bicarbonate.
Wouldn’t KI be more useful, as it could also be used for iodine uptake blockade?
Pretty sure that’s for nuclear fallout, not dehydration.