What are the best liquids for rehydrating?

The United Nations has a cheap recipe for rehydration: basically, salt, sugar and water, mixed.

Give me a few minutes to see if I can find it.

Ivy.

Here you are. I think this is it (scroll down):

http://rehydrate.org/solutions/homemade.htm


I just Googled "salt sugar rehydration". The first link that came up was a Wikipedia one, so you might like to look at that too.

I think it would be good if you could ask your pharmacist for something suitable, and even better if you could contact (or even go to) the hospital. You sound very unwell there, NCOT.

Ivy.

NCOT, I think you may feel much more comfortable in hospital. Just think how much happier your gut would be if you didn't have to eat or drink to sustain yourself, but could just be sustained through IV for a few hours, or even a few days.

I am quite concerned for you. You're supposed to be getting better after a course of antibiotic therapy, not worse!

YP9, as you are still a novice in your Crohn's journey and do not have a definite diagnosis yet, I would feel happier if you would not offer so much medical and treatment advice to members who actually are diagnosed, and who are dealing with severe problems. This can be dangerous coming from any amateur (as we all are here), but even more dangerous coming from a novice, who, in general, does not have first-hand experience of the sort of problems people like NCOT are experiencing.

At this point, perhaps you would be better to ask for advice, and to learn, rather than offering treatment advice to others.

Best wishes,

Ivy.

Thank you for understanding, YP9. And it's almost always fun talking about trials and drugs and things like that.

NCOT, I'm utterly exhausted and am going to bed, but am anxious to hear how you get on over the next few hours, so please do post an update if you can.

Hang in there, my dear. Between you and us and the wretched-sounding NHS, we'll get through this, ok?

Ivy.

Oops, slow off the uptake here, to put it mildly.

No worries, ivy - you go to bed! Don't stay up a second longer on my account: I'm gonna go downstairs and get a mug of weak, milky tea now, then try to eat something afterwards, anyway.

Goodnight :p

PS: Will provide updates. Personally being fed through a tube and not having to put anything into my stomach feels like it would be bliss at this rate, but... NHS... not hopeful :-/

Post Edited (NiceCupOfTea) : 10/3/2011 4:12:06 AM (GMT-6)

Hello!

NCOT - go back to sleep! ;)

Hope you will be fine and they will help you!

Best!

YP9

I am not sure if either of these ideas will work for you but for sure they are good when dehydrated.

1) There are some sugar free electrolyte concentrates that you add to water. I use one called ELETE and I believe there is another called Elyte. Sodium is one of the electrolytes but there are 4 others that these contain. Also, there is no need for sugar when re-hydrating, except for flavor. If I want flavor I use just a bit of high quality juice. about 20% juice and 80% water.

2) If your electrolytes are good, or in supplement to the above, I find a bone broth using the recipe from Nourishing Traditions to be healing calming and very easy on the guts. The natural gelatin is very calming. If you do not have a recipe I can post if you want.

Glad you are seeing someone and hope things turn for the better very soon

Dave

 

I'm eager to hear how NCOT is doing. I've often wondered how to tell when we are too dehydrated. I do know that when I am, and can get on an IV, I feel better quickly. I hope this is the case for her.

Just to add to what others have said, what I've learned from my own experience, and what I've learned from raising a little one...
Straight fruit juice can be too sugary and acidic, as NCOT said. We were always encouraged to dilute fruit juice for my son when he was little to prevent diarrhea.
I agree, water just doesn't work sometimes, seems to wash right through.
I've researched the UN recommendations, too, seems pretty good, although I've never tried it. I do keep some pre-mixed stuff with me when I travel.

Thanks folks :p

Went to the supermarket. It was a gruelling trip. Don't think there will be much danger of hollow laughter from me after all. At any rate, I got two litres of coconut water - it's so expensive, I couldn't afford any more :-/

@clonehead - it's done okay on Powerade in the past. Some sports drinks do have less sugar than the norm, but you have to read the labels to find out. Lucozade, for example, is laden with sugar but Lucozade Sports (think that's what it's called) has a lot less. Unfortunately I don't like most of those drinks very much :-/ ... But I remember cherry Powerade as being okay.

@dave - yeah, I'd be interested in the bone broth recipe, thanks <_<. You can buy high quality soups in the big supermarkets nowadays, but they're never just plain broths: always got tons of veggies added to them and are usually chunky.

@Becky - Thanks for a very easy tip! My skin did bounce back so presumably I'm okay, at least as far as not keeling over and dying of thirst goes.

Pedialyte is an excellent way to combat dehydrations....I think they have it for adults as well, if not it doesn't matter since using infant pedialyte is perfectly fine and it helps...you may be able to find online coupons for it as well. I personally am not a fan of gatorade because of the obvious (too much sugar and nasty chemical additives which can easliy make an IBD flare even worse in my opinion and from other CDers that I actually know who used to drink it).

Good luck Tea and feel better soon!

I like Nuun - tablets you add to your glass of water, or water bottle - very convenient, just a bit of flavor.  Vitalyte is also a good choice.  Both are available on-line (and in some stores locally).

@dave - Okay, I want to have a go at making that. I mentioned it to my mum (who came into the room just now) and she said how are you going to prevent it from boiling dry over 24 hours? I hadn't thought of that... <_<. How do you stop it from evaporating over that long a period?

@dinkley - Never heard of nunn, so I googled it and, I have to say, it looks really good. To the point I think I'm gonna try ordering a single tube of it and seeing what it's like. Seemed really expensive at first, but as I worked out it's less than 50p per 500ml drink, it's not so bad...

@Nanners - Thanks! Saw the doctor today, but I'll make another thread for that :p

@pb4 - Not certain, but I think dioralyte is the UK equivalent of pedialyte. At any rate I've had it a few times - last Christmas it helped a lot when I had my fun bout with a stomach bug. This time around I only had 2 sachets left. Well I knocked over one glass and felt a bit sick after the other glass, so I dunno. Tastes pretty foul too, although I always say if you can get down colonoscopy prep, you can get down anything - almost.

At any rate, thanks for your answers, folks :p