Posted on 03/15/2020 11:48:01 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Plumpy-Nut is an emergency peanut butter confection that quickly reverses starvation, in a Meals Ready to Eat format.
What do you as a family member or other medical layperson, need to stabilize an elder or immune compromised home care patient, when medical care systems become paralyzed?
Is there a recipe for an indigestible equivalent of IV saline solution?
We'd wish to ask Dr. Robert Cade, the inventor of Gatorade, but he died in 2007.
Indigestible ingestible. Perfidious autospell.
Info, please, no snarcasam.
Your plumpy-nuts aren’t news.
Probably not even chat.
Don’t you care?
The Democrats at Yahoo are actually starting to cheer for Joe Biden. LOL
Dig around for Oral Rehydration recipes online. Gatorade is one commercial variety of course.
Morton’s LiteSalt is a mixture of potassium and sodium, and works well for “rolling yer own”. Don’t try to be a smarty and use Splenda or some sugar-free BS like that, glucose is required for the recipe in order to promote absorption.
Directions: add ingredients separately or mix a large batch together (i.e. the gallon size) and then just measure out the "total" amount listed under 16oz or 1 liter into a water bottle, and then fill the remainder of the 16 oz. or 1 liter bottle with water.
Bkmrk.
I’ve seen and used this for as a DIY electrolyte replacement drink for a while (I use NuSalt for the potassium chloride):
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Now that chart is very helpful to have available in a pinch. Thanks. I saw a report of a ‘recovered’ Wuhan patient who indicated his hospital treatment consistent mainly of drinking profuse quantities of gatorade.
Pedialyte
Drip Drop oral hydration packets
Home made oral rehydration formula
REHYDRATION FORMULA
Rehydration Formula Supplies
¼ tsp real salt
¼ tsp no salt (potassium chloride)
¼ tsp baking soda
2 ½ tsp sugar
Mix into 4 cups of water. Give the person small sips of the solution every five minutes, even if he vomits, until he begins to urinate normally. The drink can be given with fruit juices as a flavoring.
Gatorade is very high in sugar content.
I usually advise patients to drink the lower calorie version
Gatorade G2, or Pedialyte ( if they can stand the taste)
To be honest, when you said Plumpy-Nut and starving African kids, I first thought of Sally Struthers.
Are you serious? Someone is asking for help on how to care for a senior who needs to be fed something with high density calorie. You are such a jerk.
Best advice, asked the elderly person’s doctor/medical provider for what to do at home. They’ll be the ones familiar with any other health issues that might come into play, cardiac for example.
I’d also have some way to weigh the loved one if necessary.
I figure it’s the method of getting antibodies of a COVID survivor into a current patient as quickly as possible, but unfortunately, that method, although used with other illnesses, is still a few weeks away from being available for COVID.
My hatchery always includes grow gel with my chicks when they ship. No dead chicks so far, unlike other hatcheries that did not catch up as fast on new products. It’s a green gel they go crazy for [chicks love green] ; comes in a powder they mix up with water and electrolytes or even medicine. Don’t know what the powder is, maybe agar agar or some other mucilage.
https://www.asp-inc.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Gel-Pac-Booklet-WEB-03-04-20.pdf
When I worked with migrant farm workers, I used a similar recipe with Tang instead of the sugar. Less expensive substitute for Gatorade. I guess an even less expensive version could use Kool Aid or a similar product with table sugar.
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