10-07-2005, 02:14 AM
Occhidiangela,Oct 6 2005, 08:18 PM Wrote:Salt is a key electrolyte that allows your various body functions to properly trigger and proceed. Any number of folks over in Iraq have succumbed to water poisoning, which is drinking (in hot weather) over 2 gallons of water per day while ignoring electrolyte replacement. It can kill you, and will screw you up right quick if the medic does not recognize what you have done.
MRE's have a sort of "Kool Aid" in most rations that is basically powdered Gatorade™. Using it helps replace electrolytes . . . but then, if you eat all three of your MRE's in a day, you'll probably get enough salts to manage. :P
In real hot weather, I have found that it is easy to be thirsty and not all that hungry. I have had heat exhaustion twice in my life, and a mild case of heat stroke once. (Not recently) In both cases, I sweated a lot first, and my brain went loopy. Water poisoning does something similar, or can do.
Salt is important. It is why Quetzacoatl helped the ancient Mexicans invent Tequilla, to ensure they got enough salt in their diets, along with limes to keep the scurvy away. :D
Occhi
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MREs. Meals Rejected by Ethiopians.
Yuck.
I have stacks of the damn things for hard times.
All alone, or in twos,
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."