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.