Extra Salt In Hot Weather.

Sqad | 07:11 Sat 26th Jul 2014 | Body & Soul

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Just a thought as i have noticed many threads advocating extra salt in hot weather.

During the hot weather and providing that you are not exercising during the day, extra salt is NOT required. One losses fluid during this time and this should be taken, even though one does not feel thirsty and taking extra salt will just dehydrate one further and could well puft a person into a dangerous state.

So...fluid ++ but NOT extra salt.

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sunny-dave

Wise words sqad - people read about ORT (which is for critical situations where salt/sugar is needed) and apply it to routine hot days where (as you say) salt is positively not necessary and possibly dangerous.

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wolf63

Pufft ?

I get confused with all this. I take (not through choice) Lithium and I know that it screws up my kidneys. But because it also screws up my brain I can never remember what I should and shouldn't do.

boxtops

Thank you, sqad - sound advice. For some reason I was browsing the rehydration salts section in the chemist yesterday (while waiting for a prescription), but that's a different kettle of fish altogether.

Tilly2

Thanks for that, sqad. I seem to have missed those threads.

lady-janine

thanks for that sqad. I can remember being told many years ago to take extra salt in hot climes but not why.

boxtops

Tilly, there have been comments in various "how do I cope in hot weather" questions - not specific salt questions, but general advice from ABers.

Tilly2

Mr Tilly is taking those rehydration salts that you are talking about, boxy, because he has a tummy bug. He hasn't eaten for two days.

boxtops

There's a bit of it about, tilly - I hope he's OK. I usually take a pack on holiday - just in case :-)

Tilly2

So do I , boxy. Fortunately, we've never had to use them whilst we've been away.

Svejk

did you try one of your recipes out then tilly?

Tilly2

Can't be that, sweety. I'm fine.

Prudie

I wonder if this misconstrued salt advice is a remnant from the past - my stepfather, who was an archetypal pig-sticking Army officer who'd been based in India when young, always made his young daughters (my stepsisters) take salt on any hot summer UK day.

Sqad

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Prudie.....if one was going on a route march in full pack in the mid-day sun then your Dad's advice would be accurate.........but not in a hot summer's day in the UK.

Prudie

Exactly sqad, just suggesting where ideas like this could have come from, was probably standard advice back there and then.

237SJ

Well, I`m still going to put salt on my chips in the pub later

Old_Geezer

Surely advice for more salt is directed towards cooks, who never put enough on/in the food for it to have taste ? And then wonder why you added it before needing to taste it.