Heat exhaustion: What to drink?

gatorade is High Fructose Corn Syrup and salt. I wouldnt touch it ever. I drink only OJ for breakfast and WATER the rest of the day thats it.
Hope you guys made out OK. The hotter it gets the more water I drink. Like nature intended.
Tom

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I have read this with great intrest because we are moving to the heat soon and my husband doesnt drink water at all - I love the man but he can be a bit of an idiot sometimes - so I have been worrying more than a bit but now I have some things I can do if the heat gets to him.

Thanks

Being of the male persuasion, I also can be a bit of an idiot in the heat as well. A few things I've learned and observed over the years of doing this to myself fairly regularly.

Salt. I sprinkle a bit into my hand and lick it up. When I'm totally a wreck, I can't even taste it. The results are almost immediate. I do this until I can taste the salt, and stop. Usually that's about half a teaspoon at the most.

Drink. Iced tea and lemonaide are an old known receipe. How much of that is because it tastes good so we drink it down I don't know. The high lemon juice content of the lemonaide seems to help quite a bit.

Starch. Maybe this is why pasta salad seems so good in the summers. Anyway, munching a few pretzels seems to work quite well for me, after I've regained some coherency.

The meal. Chefs salad. Several times in my life I've been treated to severe heat exhaustion. Each time with a chefs salad and sometimes soup. All I can say is it works well, real well. And the diner up near the ranchs used to sell the heck out of chefs salads for lunch to all the hands every day of the summer.

So when I come staggering in unable to speak even I lick a bit of salt and drink down a glass of tea & lemonaide. Usually about the time I finish the first glass of tea & lemonaid I can start speaking. I drink a few more glasses while slowly muching a few pretzels. Then I'm ready to go out and do it all over again. Come lunchtime, a good salad refreshes the heck out of me and I can continue all day.

I almost ended up with heat stroke this weekend (past heat exhaustion, another half hour in the sun and I probably would have ended up in the hospital). As soon as we made it out to the car we drove straight to the store, bought a big bottled water and a package of those cracker and cheese things (that are usually so gross). I sipped the water (I'd already thrown up once from the heat, and didn't want to end up throwing up again), and ate the crackers slowly. By the time we got home (about 30 minutes away) I was feeling quite a bit better, and only had a slight headache the rest of the day.

Salt it very important if you have heat stroke or heat exhaustion. If you have too little salt in your body and you drink too much water you can kill yourself (this sometimes happens to marathon runners).

Yes, I visited with a nutritionist specializing in sports medicine when DS was into some heavy workouts. She said that recent studies have shown that for recovery after exercise Chocolate Milk (not skim) is recommended.

Glad your DH is OK now...boy always a good reminder as we head into summer!

My BIL is an avid soccer player. A few weeks ago and was driving home from an intense practice - in heat, humidity. Started feeling woozy, pulled over and called my Sis and then passed out. Ended up with a 911 call

BIL is a surgeon and knows better. Just got carried away - hectic day at work, too much fun and passion on the field after work and failing to hydrat enough.

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There isn't really that much potassium in a bottle of gatorade, compared to a banana. I also keep potassium, magnesium and calcium pills around for electrolyte emergencies.

Does anyone know if dried banana chips retain their potassium? Handy to have when there are no fresh bananas around.