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How are these things different from home-made rehydration solutions? Basically it's sugar and salt in a specific proportion, right? Or are the salts more compli
by girzel 8y ago
How are these things different from home-made rehydration solutions? Basically it's sugar and salt in a specific proportion, right? Or are the salts more complicated than what you have available in your average kitchen cupboard?
- et2o 8y agoPedialyte also has flavoring
- toomuchtodo 8y agoAnd you can pick a bottle up from a Walgreens with no effort. You’re not paying for the ingredients per se, but the convenience. If I’m buying Pedialyte, I’m in no condition to make it. I just want to hydrate and go back to feeling like death on a horizontal surface.
- GW150914 8y agoOh it’s special, you can’t possibly make Pedialyte at home without a laba- we’ll really it’s piss easy. Sugar, salt, water and... that’s it. If you want get fancy and include the classic flavors and colors, add powdered drink mix to taste or juice. That’s literally it. The ratio is 4 cups of water (make three cold and one hot, mix the sugar and salt into the hot water then mix it all together.) 2 tablespoons of sugar 1/2 teaspoon of salt Optionals: 1/2 teaspoon baking soda for upset stomach 1 teaspoon Kool Aid or Jello Powder. The end. Oh, and it won’t cure a hangover, nothing does. Dehydration is part of a hangover, but by the time you have the hangover the damage is done. Other factors are metabolic stress from your liver handling the alcohol and metabolic intermediaries, congeners, and vascular reactions. Drinking water and eating normal food will keep a hangover from being worse than it has to be, but there is no cure. There are things you can do to prevent aspects of it, such as drinking at least a unit of water per unit of alcohol while you’re drinking, avoiding sugar (competes with alcohol for metabolism), and avoiding darker liquids (which have more congeners). If you’re pre-med hanging a banana bag helps, but it’s not really then responsible thing for most to do. In short, once you’re hungover, only time will help.
- hanoz 8y ago> drinking at least a unit of water per unit of alcohol What's a unit of water? Presumably not the same as a unit of alcohol which is is 10ml. (Am currently drinking approximately 6.5 units of water/grape-juice per unit of alcohol on that basis, and am not holding out much hope for hangover avoidance)
- GW150914 8y agoSorry that was massively unclear of me, and the answer is 8oz of water is a serving, unit, whatever. Aka ~120ml. Just water though, not juice, or soda or coffee. The first is loaded with sugar which competes with alcohol for liver time, and the latter two often contain caffeine which is a diuretic.
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- pkaye 8y agoYou would need a source of potassium in additional to the salt and sugar. An easy source is coconut water.
- GW150914 8y agoBuy a shaker of something like Nu-Salt or other sodium alternative and pop it in the mix. That’s not a factor in a hangover though, it really only matters if you’re losing a lot of fluids due to illness.