Poor man's Gatorade.

[PhotonWrangler]

The sugar is important. It’s not for flavor, and it cannot be replaced by an artificial sweetener.
The sugar plays a role in getting the electrolytes through the intestinal wall and into your bloodstream. Without the sugar, you can put the electrolytes in at the top and lose them out the bottom without their ever getting out of your gut.
On the other hand, the sugar does not have to be in the electrolyte mix to be in your gut. If you are eating something sugary/starchy at the same time, then the drink itself does not have to contain sugar.

I did not know about the need for sugar in the mix; thank you. This explains some things.

 

[pnwoutdoors]

A deer has probably peed in your water before

While camping, drinking from a high mountain stream's sort of like that, as well, with the deer additions from up the canyon.

"Poor Man's Gatorade", indeed. Electrolytes, giardia & crypto ... oh it's got everything.

Been a great many years since I last found a small stream I'd trust. Sign o' the times.

 

[bluflaam777]

While camping, drinking from a high mountain stream's sort of like that, as well, with the deer additions from up the canyon.

"Poor Man's Gatorade", indeed. Electrolytes, giardia & crypto ... oh it's got everything.

Been a great many years since I last found a small stream I'd trust. Sign o' the times.

I heard they all hang out with Cocaine Bear. Maybe just a rumor?

 

[TPA]

Gatoraide is full of phosphorous as well. For many people it's a non-issue, however if you have any sort of kidney issues that's a no-go. We've found that orange juice works wonders for my fiancée's cramps she sometimes gets with dialysis.

Not to hijack your thread with the multivitamin stuff;
but in the US, we consume an inordinate amount of salt

And you can taste it immediately if you've been abroad for any length of time and come back to the USA. Everything becomes overly sweet, overly salty in the USA when you've not had it in awhile. What we call "bread" in the USA is really more of a cake compared to bread abroad as well.

A deer has probably peed in your water before

"I don't drink water. Fish F--- in it." -- WC Fields.

Actually, there's a real problem out there which hasn't been adequately addressed -- pharmaceutical metabolites. Prescription pills people take just don't end once you swallow them. Many continue to live on, in active form, even after excretion. Most wastewater treatment plants aren't designed to remove these, so they get dumped out into the environment. When you're getting measurable levels of pharmaceuticals in fish and frogs, there's a problem. Then you have situations where a town upstream is dumping their treated wastewater into a river or tributary and a town downstream gets their water from the same source. Or in more modern setups, utilities pumping partially treated sewage directly into aquifers. Those people downstream are now getting pharmaceuticals in their water.

 

[dc38]

I did not know about the need for sugar in the mix; thank you. This explains some things.

I actually learned about the sugar thing from the movie Shooter

 

[dc38]

Gatoraide is full of phosphorous as well. For many people it's a non-issue, however if you have any sort of kidney issues that's a no-go. We've found that orange juice works wonders for my fiancée's cramps she sometimes gets with dialysis.


And you can taste it immediately if you've been abroad for any length of time and come back to the USA. Everything becomes overly sweet, overly salty in the USA when you've not had it in awhile. What we call "bread" in the USA is really more of a cake compared to bread abroad as well.

"I don't drink water. Fish F--- in it." -- WC Fields.

Actually, there's a real problem out there which hasn't been adequately addressed -- pharmaceutical metabolites. Prescription pills people take just don't end once you swallow them. Many continue to live on, in active form, even after excretion. Most wastewater treatment plants aren't designed to remove these, so they get dumped out into the environment. When you're getting measurable levels of pharmaceuticals in fish and frogs, there's a problem. Then you have situations where a town upstream is dumping their treated wastewater into a river or tributary and a town downstream gets their water from the same source. Or in more modern setups, utilities pumping partially treated sewage directly into aquifers. Those people downstream are now getting pharmaceuticals in their water.

There's the very real concern of birth control and other such hormones still active in the water source...this was cautioned years ago, but yeah...big pharma won again

 

[Monocrom]

I heard they all hang out with Cocaine Bear. Maybe just a rumor?

No, that poor bear died of a massive heart-attack.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

Dang it, now I've gotta go wash out my nose

To be fair, if you've ever smelled pee, your olfactory system has probably absorbed and processed some amount of vaporized or airborne particulate...same with farts and poop

You're welcome for ruining your day!

I've been thinking about this. The stuff you're inhaling when you smell poop is hydrogen sulfide and )mostly) methyl mercaptan. I don't know whether any pathogens are hitching a ride on those gases.

 

[raggie33]

Being thirsty sucks as a kid while training for 10k races i got overheated couldnt find water even looked in them golf ball cleaner things they hadon golf c ourses im so shy i was to afraid to just ask for water.

 

[dc38]

I've been thinking about this. The stuff you're inhaling when you smell poop is hydrogen sulfide and )mostly) methyl mercaptan. I don't know whether any pathogens are hitching a ride on those gases.

Ahh...I see you've never heard of the fart spray known as "liquid a$$"...THANKFULLY, I don't believe they use naturally derived ingredients, but I tell you,