hi all,
a common "traditional remedy" here is coke with salt. tastes awful and
is useless.
if i had diarrhoea, i doubt i could drink gatorade when sick. i'd have
a cup of sweet black tea and some broth - but not mixed.
when my son had diarrhoea at about 8ms, the doc gave us oralpaedon:
Dinatriumhydrogencitrat 1,5 H2O, Glucose-Monohydrat (Ph. Eur.),
Kaliumchlorid, Natriumchlorid
he would not have any of this, neither from a cup nor from a bottle.
i gave him tea and broth instead and he was fine.
a severly dehydrated baby might be better off with a drip infusion, an
adult should be able to understand the benefit of gulping down
something awful....
(ever had the bitter salt treatment before a colonoscopy?)
greets,
nina
2011/4/29 Karyn-grace <[log in to unmask]>:
> I knew I'd get roasted for that one!
>
> Fair enough. I made no claim to nutritional or medical expertise.
>
> To clarify, my suggestion was geared toward rehydrating the *mother*, not
> the baby. Baby will rehydrate just fine on breastmilk. My point in making
> the suggestion for Gatorade was to give the mother something that she would
> actually DRINK. It has to be tolerable, or it won't be taken.
>
> All I know is what my own health care professionals told me and what
> actually worked. I may not have been 'medically dehydrated', but it was
> serious (dry mouth, dry body parts, headache, dizziness, disorientation -
> not a result of illness). I could NOT tolerate the packets and didn't know
> about the homemade solution, though I suspect drinking anything flavoured
> like salt - no matter how much sweetness is added to cover it - would not
> have worked for me and would not work for anyone else senstitive to flavours
> and textures.
>
> ~kg
>
>
>
> Karyn-grace Clarke, IBCLC, RLC
> Registered Lactation Consultant
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