For those of you who didn't read the Productive Weekend thread below, please go to this address and copy the recipe for rehydration fluid. It could be very important if someone gets dehydrated. Thanks to Ken Seger for making it available to us.

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001Eb9

-- Pearlie Sweetcake (storestuff@home.now), October 04, 1999

Answers

Pearlie,

Thanks for the "heads up" on this.

-- Bokonon (bok0non@my-Deja.com), October 04, 1999.

Could this also be used as a substitute for gatorade during the summer? I work at a nursery-- an hour or so in a 120 degree greenhouse leaves one feeling a bit parched (parboiled?) no matter how much water is drunk. Gatorade helps but is expensive. This sounds like an excellent alternative.

-- Sam Mcgee (weissacre@gwtc.net), October 05, 1999.

Additional comment/question-- I saw a suggestion to have unsweetened kool-aid around that could be added to this to help make it more palatable for kids... I sometimes have a hard time drinking things like this (baking soda, blech...), so was thinking it might not be bad to have some type of drink mix available to help the flavor-- does anyone know whether adding either a sweetened or unsweetened drink mix affects how this works? Thanks.

-- winter wondering (winterwondering@yahoo.com), October 05, 1999.

You can add some sugar free coolaid or other artificial sweetener. Do not add sugar as this will cause a problem with absortion of the fluid in the gut ( fro example might stimulate diarrhea.)

An ER Doc

-- kozak (kozak@formerusaf.guv), October 07, 1999.