Originally Posted by
nancy sv
If it's really that hot and you're sweating buckets, you may need to replace the electrolytes you're sweating out. In Latin America the pharmacies have packets of rehydration salts designed for babies with diahrrea - they are PERFECT! They taste absolutely awful, but help a lot. We probably should have taken them more often than we did, but they taste so bad we didn't. We did, however, take them if we started feeling the beginnings of dehydration and they worked wonders. I don't know what the equivalent would be in the USA.
I took
this along with me on my last tour, but would have used the baby stuff had I known about it - probably is a lot cheaper than this. Ended up using all of it in Nicaragua, and was damned glad I had it with me. I got seriously dehydrated (to the point of sickness, sweating buckets, creating puddles at every stop) and needed every bit of this stuff to recover. Water and Gatorade wasn't cutting it, but this stuff had me feeling better within a few hours and fully recovered in a couple of days.