IV Bags May Not Be Necessary to Rehydrate Patients

Re:IV Bags May Not Be Necessary to Rehydrate Patients by LeifCarrotson on Thursday February 22, 2018 @11:16AM (#16438609)

As a third point of reference, the Strawberry Lemonade 32oz Powerade I have here next to my keyboard (now filled with water) contains 56g sugar, 400 mg sodium, 93 mg potassium.

Note that the label says it contains 21g sugar, 150mg sodium, 35 mg potassium - per 12 fluid ounces. Multiply by 2.66 if you drink the whole bottle.

In table format:

                    DIY Oral    Gatorade    Gatorade    Powerade    Pedialyte
                    Solution    G2          
    Sugar (g)       25          19          56          56          24
    Sodium (mg)     1000        435         400         400         986
    Potassium (mg)  0           120         100         93          780

(per 32 Oz)

It's striking how similar the regular Gatorade and Powerade are. Also, the powerade.com nutritional info site is "down for maintenance", had to search elsewhere: http://archive.is/2018.02.22-160258/https://www.powerade.com.... They have the Coca-Cola logo.gif on the site, but unfortunately no animated orange construction barrels.

Edit: Added Pedialyte

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Re:IV Bags May Not Be Necessary to Rehydrate Patients by calebsurfs on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:03PM (#16440362)

There is a major difference between Gatorade and Powerade, which is the type of sugar.

Gatorade has glucose (aka dextrose, the same sugar as an IV bag) while Powerade has high fructose corn syrup.

Glucose can be used directly by your cells while fructose is metabolized in the liver first. So for quick relief from dehydration I choose Gatorade.

* Glucose = 100% dextrose

* table sugar / sucrose = 50% dextrose

* high fructose corn syrup = ~40% dextrose

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Re:IV Bags May Not Be Necessary to Rehydrate Patients by hugodahl on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:47PM (#16440769)

All three manufactured/retail products listed also contain a non-insignificant amount of potassium, particularly the Pedialyte, to which the homemade solution matches best. Is the value added by potassium minimal enough to not include it? Or is availability in a common household more of an issue?

I have seen in stores sodium-free salt, and reduced-sodium salt, which both substitute potassium for the "missing" sodium, which can be a source of potassium if the added benefit is worthwhile.

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Re:IV Bags May Not Be Necessary to Rehydrate Patients by jtuente on Thursday February 22, 2018 @11:55AM (#16439002)

The relevant link, unfortunately it does not list the potassium in mg - https://www.coca-colaproductfacts.com/en/products/powerade/s...

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