[pct-l] Beverages

[dicentra]

Just a caution about EmergenC.

I love the stuff (it's good for hangovers too!) but you CAN O.D. on it. I was drinking some with EVERY liter of water on a trip last summer and I over taxed my system, and got sick (vomiting sick) basically making myself more dehydrated than if I had just drank plain water. 

I switched to every other liter of water with EmergenC and felt much better!

Lesson? Listen to whatever your body is telling you and act accordingly.

~Dicentra
 
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From: Robert Snook <verdick at gmail.com>
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Sent: Fri, March 5, 2010 8:09:57 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Beverages

Hmm, good idea on the Emergen-C Joint Health variety.  We're putting enough
stress on our knees, they need all the help they can get.

For the containers of powdered water mixes, I typically poured them into a
zip-lock bag and put that bag into another zip-lock bag.  The constant
pouring out of the first bag would eventually gunk up the zip track enough
that it wouldn't work too well, hence the second bag. Nothing worse than
having a fruit punch flavored and red pack, clothes, tent, & sleeping bag!


Verdick '05
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