ANY campaign should know by now: Electrolyte drinks/chews are your BEST friend at events.

[blm]

You don't even have to be sick to benefit from electrolyte drinks in event situations where crowds are pressing around you ala 9/11 memorial. People often faint at these crowded events.

I used to put on large events in LA and couldn't even imagine dong them now that I am older without gatorade or another form of electrolyte drinks. And when you add the inevitable illness, then use the more expensive pedialyte.

The person charged with being HRC's body person isn't doing their job well, imo. Or they just aren't aware.

[treestar]

1. Tell them!

Hillary has to do twice as much to get half the credit, so they need to know all of this stuff. Maybe get her diet as healthy as possible too - that goes a long way.

[blm]

2. Pete Daou still comes to DU - that's why I am posting this.

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[underpants]

3. I agree. I used pedialyte and energy chews when training for marathons

Dehydration is the WORST thing that can happen to you in training (aside from actual injury). The one marathon that I had to drop out of was due to dehydration and, it turned out, a fever.

They should have been prepared for her to be out on a day like that.

[Nay]

26. Yep -- should have been prepared -- she had already been diagnosed, and needed

her people to make sure she had pedialyte and fast energy bars.

[Sunlei]

4. Such a double standard the woman can't even cough to clear lungs without deplorables attacking.

I couldn't do that

[blm]

11. No kidding. A republican man would be hailed for 'persevering' because…...

'God' needed him to carry on…..or was it the 'Second Mendment' or 'Two Corinthians'? heheh….or some other bullshit like that.

[Dem2]

5. Electrolyte drinks give me violent acid reflux

Since I stopped drinking them, my GIRD (and all the trouble of sticking scopes down my throat) has subsided. You just can't speak for others.

[blm]

9. True - but there are other ways to manage, which is the ultimate point.

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[politicaljunkie41910]

24. But when you're dehydrated you lose potassium and electrolytes and you need to replenish them.

I was dehydrated back in June from 2 days with diahria. I had no appetite but I kept drinking water. Then around midnight I caught a cramp in my leg and my husband was massaging it. Then I jumped up because I had to go to the bathroom, and walked around the foot of the bed, and my husband told me I fell straight back. I had fainted.

When I came to, I heard my husband shouting and I asked him why he was talking so loud. He said he was talking to 911, I had fainted. I immediately said, "no I didn't", and he said, "yes you did". And I had no recollection of it. The paramedics arrived quickly and loaded me into an ambulance, and I had what I can only describe as an out of body experience and I felt like I was above the scene looking down. There were two paramedics in the ambulance and a driver. One paramedic on my left was trying to get a blood pressure, and the one on my right was trying to start an IV. The one on my left kept saying, "I can't get a blood pressure". The one on my right kept saying "I can't find a vein." But he opened a needle package and stuck me, and he said that the vein collapsed. He then tried another and the same thing happened.

The blood pressure guy kept saying he couldn't get a blood pressure, and I heard them discussing it may be cup they were using and they said that the BP cup is known to have problems at times and doesn't always work and they wouldn't try again, that we were close to the hospital and they'd wait and let them try.

The good news is that if I didn't actually have an out of body experience, but I was hallucinating or something, (for me it was and always will be an out of body (near death) experience), and everything from my perspective was calm and peaceful, while everything happening around me was chaotic except for me. Once I got to the hospital, my first BP reading was a very low numberhe , something over 38, I can't recall exactly. "The nurse said, that can't be right, let me try it again using a different cup. I still had on the cup that that the paramedics were using" If this is what near death feels like, than I can handle it. I was not afraid. I was very calm. It was surreal.

The ER doctor told me that in the future, never to drink water for dehydration and especially with diahria. Drink a sports drink. He said you lose a lot of potassium with water through the diahria which is probably what cause my lightheadedness and fainting. You need something to replenish the potassium and the electrolytes. At age 58, I didn't know not to drink water when dehydrated. I will never forget now. Since then I keep two bottles of Sports Drinks in my fridge at all times, just in case.

[radius777]

28. Great story

Yeah, by not eating and continuing to drink water, it made the situation worse.

The sports chews and bars are also good.

[Dem2]

36. I wonder how I would survive without an esophagus?

Your experience was harrowing, no doubt, but you can't speak for everybody. Posts giving medical advice are actually prohibited here for this very reason. Please remember that no two people have the exact same chemistry.

[wncHillsupport]

6. Elec drinks

are not recommended by real nutrition scientists. Plain water works best. But...if you are in the midst of a crowd, just how much water are you willing to drink knowing you will need to pee after 8 to 12 ounces? And can you imagine the TV images of Hillary chewing on something in the crowd?

Her campaign should have let her stay for one hour max and then taken her out of the crowd.
I thought they were making sure she got enough rest but now I am not so sure.

[Blue Idaho]

8. Not to sidetrack the conversation but...

it turns out non-fat milk may be one of the best re-hydrators.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/milk-and-other-surprising-ways-to-stay-hydrated/?_r=0

[radius777]

29. not if you're lactose intolerant

which many people are, milk products can create digestive issues, ie gas, bloating, diarrhea.

[Cosmocat]

10. THAT is the out take

She had the news of the WP, then plowed through a really big day on Friday.

I think this might have been a little slower day and they figured she would be OK for an extended time, but I will be honest, as I have aged standing takes more out of me than moving around a bit.

Should have kept her on a shorter leash for this event and got her somewhere where she could be in the AC and off her feet.

[blm]

12. Standing does it for me, too, and I'm 8 years younger than HRC.

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[AngryAmish]

7. Brawndo

[NCTraveler]

13. Is this a reoccurring issue with Clinton? nt.

[blm]

14. It can happen to anyone in those circumstances.

Illness like pneumonia just makes it more likely. That and standing for long periods of time.

[NCTraveler]

15. Is that a yes or no? nt.

[blm]

16. I think it is a no, based on her obvious examples of stamina throughout this campaign.

I was a Bernie voter, but, one thing I admired about BOTH of them is that they have shown how tough and resilient they are. I am younger than both, but, would have definitely suffered if I had to try and fulfill even 20% of their schedules.

[NCTraveler]

17. "I think it is a no"

[blm]

18. Would you prefer I make a declarative statement I wasn't 100% certain of or do you

see honest replies as a weakness worthy to be laughed at here?

[NCTraveler]

19. I like your reply the way is was. Very clear. nt.

[elleng]

27. Yes, according to Bill C.

He told Charlie Rose today.

[NCTraveler]

30. What did he say to CR?

She rarely gets dehydrated? Doesn't sound like a theme unless one was desperate to make it one.

[elleng]

35. No, not that she rarely gets dehydrated.

That she's experienced 'fainting/wobbles,' I forget how characterized, in the past a few/several times.

[Demsrule86]

20. She has pneumonia....give it a rest...for heavens sake! nt

[blm]

21. Gee…that was part of the point, it was JUST common pneumonia. Campaign preparing

ahead for these circumstances isn't controversial now, is it?

[Demsrule86]

22. I see it as just another way to criticize.

No one prepares for pneumonia.

[blm]

23. Well, you're wrong, imo. She was unwell and campaign should've had someone nearby

with proper hydration. Camps DO prepare every time you go to any event, and definitely when under the weather.

[Demsrule86]

32. And your post is useful why? How exactly are you helping? You are merely pouncing on a bit of bad

news. I had walking pneumonia and fainted and was taken by ambulance to the hospital. You don't feel that badly until the collapse.

[blm]

33. Yep - I know - Have had it 5 times and only one time fainted.

The one time I fainted there was a pressing crowd. Firefighters who rolled me away to first aid tent suggested gatorade if I wanted to return. I stand by the position that campaign's body person should have electrolyte drink nearby during any and all events.

Sorry that bothers you. Perhaps moving on would be a good idea.

[complain jane]

25. I went to a wedding in the summer in my 20's

The church had no a/c, and at the first "All Rise" I rose and then down I went.

Next thing I knew 2 people brought me outside, gave me a paper cup of water and I was fine.

Now it's 20 years later and I don't leave the house without a bottle of water in warm weather. If I know I will be outdoors much of the day prior to that day, I make sure to hydrate the day before.

And I'm a lazy fuck. I can't imagine the nutritional/rest/hydration needs of someone with Hillary's schedule.

I also can't imagine the level of privacy desired for a woman in her position. The scrutiny, the double standard, the right-wing hysteria that has dogged her all her life. And she keeps going.

Of course I'm with her.

[MADem]

31. "Ewwww, Look at Hillary--she's snacking and drinking while everyone else is bowing their heads and

remembering the dead!!!! EWWWW!!!"

She can't win with the haters, so screw them. It doesn't matter what she does, if SHE does it, it's the crime of the century, if the Conald does it, it's "Donald being Donald." He can call Mexicans rapists, and the media, making money off a faux horserace, says "Oh well." She calls those xenophobes that cheer him on "deplorable," and again--crime of the century.

It's utter bullshit and it has incited in me a determination to get as many butts to the polls as I possibly can.

A woman with pneumonia, standing for an hour and a half in soupy humid heat, is a tough cookie. How anyone can say she's not tough is beyond me.

[blm]

34. I know I couldn't keep even 1/3 her schedule.

The double standard from media in elections is ALWAYS atrocious, and this year seems it is as bad as it was against Kerry. Corpmedia never advances any serious story against GOP, but, magnifies any minor story it can transform into a 'scandal' against Dems.