Heat index is bad.
Do you use gatorade, or any other mixes, to assist in hydration?
Thanks.
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Gatorade & Pedialite or water. Diet Coke & coffee are poison - decreases the body's ability to compensate for the heat.
Poweraid Zero. I am diabetic.
FOCO coconut juice
Green tea
Water
On a hot day I will consume close to a gallon of water and a couple of 16 oz Gatorades. I can get by with straight water if my lunch and snacks are high in salt.
>I can get by with straight water if my lunch and snacks are high in salt.
Does anybody remember getting salt tablets after football practice back in the day?
My brother and sister-in-law still use salt tablets on their sailboat. Salt tablets are getting harder to come by according to them though.
You can buy low sodium salt. the label reads "salt sense, real salt, 33% less sodium"
Of course you end up shaking out 33% more salt to season your food.
The advantage seems to be you pay more and run out faster.
Lemonade is good with salt added
> Lemonade is good with salt added
It's also good with vodka or gin added too.
> > Lemonade is good with salt added
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> It's also good with vodka or gin added too.
AFTER you get in out of the heat........;-)
my son makes lemon icy in a blender. two trays ice, two lemons peeled and de-seeded, 3/4 cup sugar, 3/4 cup water, (vodka or gin optional). Reduced it to slush in blender. Guaranteed to give you brain freeze if gulped.
Think I'll go make some!
RB, that looks good. I think I'll try some. I even eat salt, right out of a shaker. But, that looks better.
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Why did they say salt was a no-no? My brother claims that for him and his wife, salt helps alleviate the effects of the extreme heat such as nauseous feelings and heat exhaustion. So hearing why it is bad would be interesting.
If you sweat a lot, you lose sodium and (I think) potassium. Taking an excess of salts probably has the effect you describe, but failing to replenish them when you are getting low is probably worse.
Interesting, thank you. Living in a tropical climate in the summer here in Maryland, sweat is simply unable to do its' job anyway 😛 .... simply too hot and humid for the sweat to do anything but make one more miserable....
Safety officer tells us calories are important to preventing heat illness.
In other words, eat breakfast and eat lunch.
Spending all day inside debating proper hydration techniques sounds like a winner.
or
1) Hot black coffee (preferably free)
2) Marlboros
3) Beef jerky
Be VERY careful with the Gatorade and electrlyte addatives!! I had a friend in he National Guard that chugged Gatorade to beat the mississippi heat. He ended up in the hospital because he blew his electrolytes all out of balance.
The best thing to use is simply water. We provide our c rews with cases of bottled water and insist that they use it. Some add Crystal Lite to the bottle of watyer with the noon meal for a change of pace.
you sound like my party cheif. But he adds peanuts too.
