Water warning, don't drink much?

PeakXV

Athletes always hydrate the day(s) before competition .... leaving this 'drinking' all for the actual event is too late to function/play efficiently. Walking, strolling, trekking, hiking under a hot Indian sun with backpacks, possibly a slight case of Delhi Belly already under your belt, and often with poor air quality is certainly analagous to any 'competition'. Hydrate the day/evening before you do any of those Gandhi-salt-march-like touristy/pilgrimage things!

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Don't go to India ~ Pre-trip Warnings & Misconceptions?

roopeeman

I found out that especially in Goa drinking enough water is vital
to health. Goa is a huge bottle of beer. Just open the mouth and
the liquid enters you!
It's riduclous how much 1 liter bottles you consume in India.
Often I just drank the water on tables in restaurants after I smelled it. That of course is generally considered a stupid thing to to.

04274108

Good post SB. Like you, I drink very little fluids during the day. However, about a year ago, I started doing some heavy running. After a week, I woke up in the middle of the night in searing pain (it felt like getting knifed over and over again in hte guts).

Turns out, I had kidney stones. After being pumped full of morphine overnight (what a wonderful drug...it feels as thought every bone has been taken out of your body and every pain you have blissfully melts away) and a day of rest, I began drinking liters of water each day. No problems since.

Nick-H

Back in the days of my youth when an evening out was not considered a success unless it ended with one's head in a toilet, we had a rule of thumb to try to drink as many pints of water as we had beer (or cider, in my case). Still woke up with some hefty headaches!

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capt_mahajan

Kind of offtopic, a guy next door to me in the men's room in Montreal- "You don't buy beer, you rent beer"

brownboy66

still off topic....

I would say, given the number of beer bellies in various pubs and resorts, the beer has taken up a long term lease!

(ps - what was wrong with the sink? and you were having a conversation with some nameless stranger in the mens room....in Canada)!?

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Nick-H

Most of my drinking youth was in Cornwall: it was as likely to be a hedge as a toilet.

But later in life, as well as some absurdly overindulgent corporate hospitality events, from which we were lucky to return conscious, I do recall an evening trip to the shop to buy some milk.

I was renting a room from a friend in a council flat (=government housing in India) in Wapping, East London, in the days before it became very posh, and decided to walk to the shop at the already-touristy St Katherine Dock. Unfortunately, I met a friend at the large 'real-ale' establishment there and stayed a couple of hours, staggering home, very much the worse for wear.

Wapping High Street (I think it had one shop and a couple of pubs) was generally deserted in the night. The River Thames on one side, and falling-into-disuse warehouses on the other. It was about as eerie and Dickensian as a 20th-century London street could be, but that never bothered me, as I reasoned that muggers would not be common in deserted streets.

Walking towards me (in those days they showed an interest in what happened on the streets) I spotted --- a policeman. Crossing the narrow, deserted road would have been just plane silly, so we came face to face.

"Are you all right?"

I could hardly stand straight. Bullshit would have been daft.

"No. But I only live round the corner, and I'll get there all right."

"OK, then; mind how you go".

Nice enough guy! Worst thing about it was I dropped the milk, which came in glass bottles in those days --- and spent about two horrible hours in the toilet.

capt_mahajan

Hey, one makes friends where one can.

Ali-Monbeam

Well why dont they taste the same????


I have a kidney problem and HAVE to drink plenty OR ELSE!! one has already just about given up the ghost so this is good advice.

It can be any kind of fluid tho as stated before.
I love lime sodas ... water when its warm is awful but mixed with lime and a dash of sugar or half lime soda makes it a little better.

Cardamom

I just discovered Rooh Afza last week at a friend's house on a really hot, humid day here in NY. I bought a bottle and I absolutely love it. It's very refreshing and makes water more "interesting" to drink.

Great thread - I'm sitting here eating some watermelon to get some extra water in my diet yumyum!


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PeakXV