Indigestible ingestible. Perfidious autospell.
Your plumpy-nuts aren’t news.
Probably not even chat.
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.
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.
To be honest, when you said Plumpy-Nut and starving African kids, I first thought of Sally Struthers.
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.