Are we able to have pedialyte?

Alexx
on 6/24/07 12:40 pm
I seem to be on the road to being dehydrated again and I heard pedialyte might help. I remember rading in a WLS book that pedialyte is ok for us to have but I want to make sure. Can we have pedialyte or does it have too much sugar?
Cruise Director Julie
on 6/24/07 12:43 pm - Dallas, TX
RNY on 11/15/05 with
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?!?
Alexx
on 6/24/07 12:49 pm
I'm to osick to go to the store so my mom is going for me, and shes left already.  I keeo dry heaving and when I tried to get some protein supplemement down it came right back up again. This has been going on since yesterday -_-
Donna M.
on 6/24/07 9:06 pm
I would say you need to call your doc first thing this morning and tell him/her what is going on. They can tell you what would be best for you to try and if you need to be seen... Better safe than sorry...

That is what they get the big bucks for!!

Hope you feel better

Hugs

Donna

WT- High 311/Pre-op 293/Post-op 313/Current 159/Goal 150
    

Star Dust
on 6/25/07 2:53 am - Centennial, CO
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.
Alexx
on 6/25/07 5:22 am
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.
"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. " Well yes to all those symptoms. I have been throwing up some water and definitely my protein supplement. I see the surgeon tomorrow. I called today so I guess its not that urgent, though I feel like hell. I still have difficulty breathing when I walk though.
Star Dust
on 6/25/07 5:32 am - Centennial, CO
I had difficulty breathing as well. I'm glad you're seeing your doctor.
sallyjr
on 6/24/07 2:40 pm - KS
When do you see your surgeon again?  I'm only pre-op, but I think if you can't even hold down water, you could have a stricture . Hope you get to feeling better. Sally
Carly P.
on 6/24/07 10:37 pm - Fairport, NY
I would give your surgeon a call to see what they suggest.  Dehydration is serious business and you may need IV fluids. 

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