Pedialyte and Cholera

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I have been reading up on Cholera. Apparently the mortality rate from this disease can be reduced from fifty to one% with proper and immediate oral rehydration. (Cholera does something along the lines of making your gut too permable and you die from dehydration in short order, essentialy leaking to death.) If the right mixture of saline and glucose solution is administered orally in time, the survival rate is good. The wrong mixture, only saline or only glucose will just cause more vomiting and hasten death. The next option would be IV administration of fluids, but in a ten where is that supposed to come from, I don't have the stuff or know-how to do that. So, does anyone know if Pedialyte fits the bill here for oral rehydration? What about like Gator-Aid or something.( forgive my ignorance please.)

Also, has anyone approached a doctor about getting cholera/typhus/typhoid/pneumonic-bubonic plauge etc...(you get the idea) innoculations? I am afrad to do this and call attention to myself. I have a three year old son and also worry about the effects of these harsh vaccines on him if they turn out to be unnecessary. (I know I know, the big gambol.) Anyway, I would appreciate any information on oral rehydration options for severe diarreha as from Cholera and other diseases. (I did get a Katadyn Combi-Pump in addition to purifed drums of water...supposedly this will filter all known microbes out...but still.) Thanks a lot.

-- (y2kfallback@yahoo.com), August 13, 1999

Answers

I copied the following from the regular Timebomb2000 forum several months ago:

ELECTROLYTE AND FLUID REPLACEMENT

One teaspoon of "Lite Salt" (by Morton, 1/2 iodized potassium chloride, 1/2 sodium chloride in a blue cylinder)

1/3 teaspoon of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate),

10 teaspoons of table sugar (sucrose),

one quart of water.

That happens to be a life saving fluid replacement and partial electrolyte expedient replacement. At least it is expedient if you have had the foresight to purchase the above three items BEFORE an emergency happens while it is readily available and very cheap. Many people die in times of emergency because of fluid losses. This can be from burns, vomiting, or diarrhea. The body needs water and certain water soluble chemicals to function. If either or both of these drop below a certain level, you die. There are many non-fatal diseases like cholera that become fatal due to lack of simple things like proper fluid replacement. If you have ever had a bad case of diarrhea and start to have pain in your muscles or joints, congratulations, you have had the early warning symptoms of a potassium deficiency.

For ease of purchasing the items for this formula, Morton Lite Salt comes in a 11 oz. light blue cylinder. Baking soda a 1 or 4 pound box. Sugar 5, 10, or 25 pound sack. To make approximately 300 quarts of the solution you need 5 - 11 oz. units of Morton's Lite salt, 1 - 1 pound box of baking soda, and 25 pounds of sugar.

-- Pearlie Sweetcake (storestuff@home.now), August 13, 1999.


Thank you Perlie, it does my heart good to know that my months of ranting have paid off and people like you have picked up the torch and are spreading the light, I thank you from the bottem of my heart. Keep up the good work!

The file is at http://home.earthlink.net/~kenseger/surv/ORIENT and the informtion is originaly from Dr. Jane Orient's video tape Medicine for Survivalists (or something like that) that came out in the 1980's. Dr. Orient is past pres. of both TACDA and DDP. The American Civil defense Assoc. and Doctors for Disaster Preparedness.

-- Ken Seger (kenseger@earthlink.net), August 15, 1999.


Morton lite salt can be found in the salt section of your grocery store. I have the electrolyte recipe taped to the lite salt containers. Pedialyte is fine, just outrageously expensive.

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), August 15, 1999.

Ken, I'm sorry I didn't give you credit for that info, but I only saved the recipe part of the message. This recipe is one thing I try to give all new "converts," since dehydration may be a major problem when disease strikes. I think it is very important. Thank you Ken, for making it known to us.

-- Pearlie Sweetcake (storestuff@home.now), August 16, 1999.

Thank you for this thread. My 13 year old son was hospitalized this summer with a *cholera-like* disease, for which they have not found a name... and if we had not had IV's to keep him rehydrated, he would not have survived. He could not keep liquids down, and was having continual diarrhea... it took a week in the hospital before he could keep down the most minimal liquids, and then several weeks more at home, nursing him, before he could eat regular food.

This was VERY scarey.

Be prepared for this...

Thank you for the recipe... I'm going to get the lite salt this week...

gp

-- georgia peach (the.patch@worldnet.att.net), August 16, 1999.



Here in UK,you can get all those innoculations by telling the doctor you are going on holiday to a Third World Country.Try India or Jamaica for example.A good travel guide from the library should help you choose a country "to visit".

-- Chris (griffen@globalnet.co.uk), August 18, 1999.

Buy some susgarless Kool Aide to put into the electrolytes to make it more palatable for the kids. Taz

-- Taz (Tassie@aol.com), August 19, 1999.

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