But when you say lots of fluids, are you talking about merely ingesting them or also receiving them via IV in a hospital? Once the hospitals are overrun with patients the scenario may change...that’s what concerns me.
I am not a doctor.
I have had severe food poisoning that I thought was something else and had diarrhea and vomiting for several days.
When I finally went to the DR they gave me 1 bag of saline and told me to drink as much Gatorade as I could. I am sure anything with electrolytes would suffice. I drank gallons of it. I don’t really like it to this day.
This was all it took to put me back right so to answer you directly if I were to get Ebola or have a family member get it I would have them powering down fluids by mouth as much as they could stand.
In the case of severe immediate dehydration IV is the quickest way to get fluids in. Overrun hospitals are a problem.
My understanding of Ebola is that it has an incubation period of several days or a week. If you are in an area where you think it is likely that you may have contact I would start immediately getting fluids in to be fully hydrated when the diarrhea and vomiting starts.
Keep it up. Use vegetable juice or blended foods with some sugar to make them palatable.
Hospitals are necessary but any good doctor will get you out of the hospital as soon as possible because the chance of infection there is higher than anywhere else. If you never have to go so much the better.
That said, IV’s are not rocket science. Bags of saline can be had. Home use is not unheard of.