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2016-08-01 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Overhydration may have caused death in Army Ranger training

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Posted by trailing wife 2016-08-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 When deployed, our guys bought infamil to maintain electrolytes and would drink it from their camel baks

Posted by newc 2016-08-01 12:01|| 2016-08-01 12:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Newc - do you really mean Infamil? That is baby formula. We used Pedialyte to prevent dehydration - good for adults with severe stomach issues or vomiting also.

Posted by GORT 2016-08-01 12:41|| 2016-08-01 12:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Fatal overhydration (EAHE) is the end result of a fraud propagated by Pepsi/Gatorade and the American College of Sports Medicine to move more product. Heat injury is independent of hydration levels and nobody dies of transient dehydration during exertion--you will slow your pace to a crawl, and then a halt, long before any serious harm occurs. Electrolyte drinks are actually DILUTVE of serum sodium concentration. (They'd have to be at unpalatably high levels to not be--think sea water.)

Sports drinks improve neither safety nor performance. Their marketing story is made up bullshit that has lead to scores of deaths and many thousands of hospitalizations. This young man died needlessly.

P.S. DOD is Gatorade's single largest account.

Posted by Clolunter Elmeretle8650 2016-08-01 13:21|| 2016-08-01 13:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Ringers solution

Posted by Dopey Panda2104 2016-08-01 13:58|| 2016-08-01 13:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Dopey was me, but damn if this system isn't clairvoyant.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2016-08-01 14:02|| 2016-08-01 14:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Their marketing story is made up bullshit that has lead to scores of deaths and many thousands of hospitalizations.

So, why haven't I see a single tort lawyer commercial on it? Just asking. Those creatures smell out the vaguest opening to exploit.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-08-01 17:20|| 2016-08-01 17:20|| Front Page Top

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