Sugar, salt, baking soda, water and a packet of unsweetened KoolAid works wonders as a low cost, easy to carry electrolyte replacement. Keep the dry ingredients in a small tube or other water proof container, add them to the water, have patient drink as much as they can.
The chemicals will replace the electrolytes, the KoolAid makes it palatable.
Try some with some lemon-lime flavored KoolAid and then compare the taste to original Gatoraid some time, an amazing similarity.
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JohnE
"and all the lousy little poets
comin round
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson"
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