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Gave up caffeine - dehydration!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83 ✭✭karma_coma


    Definitely need to give up caffeine..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,588 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    antodeco wrote: »
    Make sure you use the correct volumes with it, otherwise you will throw your electrolyte levels all over the place.
    No you won't.

    Adding a bit more water won't affect the electrolyte content.
    It's no different to drinking it as normal, followed by some water.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭ErinGoBrath


    I'd recommend the Zero electrolyte tablets on Wiggle.ie

    I use them around training but sounds like it could be what you need.

    Taste a lot better than the dreaded Dioralytes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    Had dioralyte on my break (the blackcurrant one, it was all the chemist had) and it wasn't all that bad. I managed to drink it, so that's something :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Lo-lo salt contains sodium chloride (table salt) and potassium chloride, both which are usually found in overpriced commercial electrolyte mixtures.

    You can make up a strong solution and drink a shot of it, and wash it down immediately afterwards with some dilutable orange or diluted fruit juice, sort of like a tequila shot. Or just mix it in with the drink. As this is in solution it should go to work a bit faster than if you took a capsule.

    I do this with bread soda the morning after drinking, the sodium bicarbonate neutralises acid in the stomach and then turns to sodium chloride, which then makes you rehydrate better. Bread soda tastes horrible so do the washing down afterwards trick if trying it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,588 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    rubadub wrote: »
    Lo-lo salt contains sodium chloride (table salt) and potassium chloride, both which are usually found in overpriced commercial electrolyte mixtures.

    You can make up a strong solution and drink a shot of it, and wash it down immediately afterwards with some dilutable orange or diluted fruit juice, sort of like a tequila shot.
    You are right in that Lo-Lo contains two of the salts commonly found in rehydration solutions (the third being sodium citrate), but the ratios are way off, its too low in sodium. If you had some Lo-Lo handy, combining it with table salt in a 1:2 ratio (LoLo:Salt) would get pretty close to guidline amounts. But Salt alone is fine though - and preferable to Lo-Lo on its own imo.

    Don't forget the sugar too.

    This is the mix I used recently for rehydrating a missing 5kg recently. Comes from WHO recommendation for homemade ORS.
    6 teaspoon sugar : 0.5 teaspoons salt : 1 litre water


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