Are we able to have pedialyte?
I just checked the pedialyte web site and couldn't find any nutritional information. You're probably going to have to go to the store and read the box, but I would expect they're too high in sugar.
Try Propel. It's water made by Gatorade with electrolytes. It's sweetened with Splenda and each bottle has about 20 calories.
Blessings, Jennifer
253 / 140 (below goal)
If I were lying, wouldn't my pants be on fire?!?
253 / 140 (below goal)
If I were lying, wouldn't my pants be on fire?!?
Pedialyte has too much sugar. It is listed as the second ingredient, the first being water. It has 20 grams of it and 5 grams of fructose (fruit sugar). You would have to drink a quart of Pedialyte (the entire bottle) before you could even begin to think your electrolytes were being balanced.
Do you throw up everything you drink? If so, that sounds like a bad stricture and needs to addressed immediately. Otherwise, the shake itself might not settle well with you. I've had shakes make me gag before. If you're dry heaving, you may have something else... either way, call your surgeon.
If you feel weak, dizzy, sleepy, have a dry mouth, have dark urine, headaches and a general feeling of being sick, like you have a cold or something without the actual symptoms of a cold you need to just go to the ER. I've been down the road of dehydration before and it will sneak up on you and hit you fast and hard. You won't be able to get in enough water to catch up. Getting IV fluids is very easy. The hardest part is sitting there for a couple of hours waiting for it to be done unless you can just take a nap through most of it.
You'll start feeling better once you're hydrated and by the next day you'll feel alot better. It's basically the same scenario with a stricture... you will feel so much better after it's fixed you'll wonder why you didn't treat it sooner.
On June 25, 2007 at 9:53 AM Pacific Time, desert_willow wrote:
Pedialyte has too much sugar. It is listed as the second ingredient, the first being water. It has 20 grams of it and 5 grams of fructose (fruit sugar). You would have to drink a quart of Pedialyte (the entire bottle) before you could even begin to think your electrolytes were being balanced.
Do you throw up everything you drink? If so, that sounds like a bad stricture and needs to addressed immediately. Otherwise, the shake itself might not settle well with you. I've had shakes make me gag before. If you're dry heaving, you may have something else... either way, call your surgeon.
If you feel weak, dizzy, sleepy, have a dry mouth, have dark urine, headaches and a general feeling of being sick, like you have a cold or something without the actual symptoms of a cold you need to just go to the ER. I've been down the road of dehydration before and it will sneak up on you and hit you fast and hard. You won't be able to get in enough water to catch up. Getting IV fluids is very easy. The hardest part is sitting there for a couple of hours waiting for it to be done unless you can just take a nap through most of it.
You'll start feeling better once you're hydrated and by the next day you'll feel alot better. It's basically the same scenario with a stricture... you will feel so much better after it's fixed you'll wonder why you didn't treat it sooner.