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Post by katt on Oct 6, 2012 14:39:05 GMT -5
Recipe for Pedialyte (makes a huge batch) 1 quart water 1 Tbs Salt 1 Tbs Sugar
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Post by Heather on Oct 6, 2012 15:43:31 GMT -5
If you want to make that so your little ones will take almost no matter how sick they are...replace that water with broth (the real stuff) ciao
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Post by katt on Oct 6, 2012 15:50:39 GMT -5
Good to know, thanks Heather!
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Post by Heather on Oct 6, 2012 15:53:40 GMT -5
My sickies are living proof of it. I don't know how many I've had who were too sick and refusing even baby food will lap this off the end of a syringe. If you boil a whole carcass to disintegration there are also all your trace minerals, fat and other nutrients in that too. I always keep some frozen in the freezer in little baggies ciao
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Post by darlene on Oct 6, 2012 16:15:14 GMT -5
Thanks guys for posting the recipe,good thing to have in the freezer I would imagine it would be good for cats too
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Post by Sherry on Oct 6, 2012 16:39:44 GMT -5
Definitely good for cats as well
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2012 19:54:16 GMT -5
Pedialyte also contains potassium and zinc, aren't those important to include?
Also Pedialyte uses dextrose and fructose instead of sucrose. What difference does that make? Not sure but I imagine there must be a good reason they would use those, as sucrose should be cheaper.
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Post by Sherry on Oct 6, 2012 23:33:32 GMT -5
As for cheaper- it really depends on what else the company makes If they do make other products with dextrose, then buying that in even larger bulk would def be cheaper.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2012 2:31:42 GMT -5
Good point Sherry, my mistake, sucrose may not be cheaper.. Well if you wanted to make the recipe more like Pedialyte you could always add those vitamins, and you could use either regular or high-fructose corn syrup I don't know what the ratio of dextrose to fructose is supposed to be in Pedialyte but corn syrups contain those sugars. Supposedly dextrose gets into the bloodstream faster than sucrose because it doesn't have to be metabolized first.
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Post by Heather on Oct 7, 2012 15:25:21 GMT -5
I use honey. I don't know if that helps your calcs or not but there are antibiotic properties in honey ciao
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2012 17:11:20 GMT -5
Interesting, well honey is a whole different ball game apparently... I just looked up which sugars honey contains, and read that honey contains as many as 24 different sugars (including the ones mentioned above), some not well-defined or understood yet by science
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