heat illness

[Bike Goddess]

Kelowna- Just look on Google for E-Caps. They are electrolytes and help replace what you lose from sweat. Highly recommended.

I also suggest that you have some table salt with you (I take packets from the fast food places)

[rocknrollgirl]

Hi all,
A few weeks back we did a 6 hour adventure race. It was in the mid 70's and humid. My husband, the tower of strength, got dehydrated during the race. A big surprise, but we are very careful about hydrating. Sparing you details, suffice it to say the last hour of the race was moderately unpleasant.

SO, afterward, I ask the EMT guys for some salt tablets to give to him, and they said that giving sodium chloride, table salt is a big NO NO, that it was a balance of potassium and sodium that was needed. They told us absolutely not to use them.

I do not tolerate heat at all, and we live in an area of the country that is very hot and very humid 5-6 months of the year. I always, always use a Camelback with cytomax or gatorade in the summer, no matter how short the ride. And ride early or late, that will help too.
Now if you want to go mt biking in the winter...I'm your girl!!!

Don't know if this will help, but since I have suffered so much in the past, I thought I would pass it along.
Good Luck,
Ruth

[betagirl]

When it's hot out, I bring 1 bottle with water and 1 with cytomax or gatorade or whatever has electrolytes in it and I like the taste of at the time I use the water to cool off mostly, but try to keep some in reserve to drink if I run out of gatorade. Depending on how far I'm going before I can refill, I'll use the water on my head and neck to cool off if I get too hot.

I'll take heat any day over this dang cold we've been having around here though!

[jobob]

I use the water to cool off mostly, but try to keep some in reserve to drink if I run out of gatorade. Depending on how far I'm going before I can refill, I'll use the water on my head and neck to cool off if I get too hot.

Just don't do what I did last weekend, and accidentally reach for the cytomax bottle instead of the water bottle when you douse yourself.

Lucky for me the cytomax bottle was nearly empty at the time

[betagirl]

LOL, oh yeah I've been close to doing that! Mmmmm, sticky.