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On Sep 30, 12:15*am, "Don White" wrote:
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Vic suggested using salt tablets for extreme sweating and I have to
admit I have never used salt tablets and dont use much salt on my
food either. *I cannot seem to convince my doc that the sweating is
a serious problem; he simply says to drink a lot of water.
*However, it has come close to killing me twice while caving so I
can no longer do any real caving. *Caves are a near 100% humidity
enviro and around here are roughly 74 degrees so I sweat enough to
have my coveralls saturated very quickly. *The last couple times I
went, I got loopy an
d
got lost and simply didnt care.
When boating, I can carry a lot of water so I always have a liter
in hand. *I never drink sodas and am not into sports drinks either.
*T
his
issue makes me not want to go boating by myself so I am looking for
a solution. *Sweating is your bodies way to get cool so isnt
suppressin
g
sweating a bad thing? *One can normally cool off during boating too
b
y
jumping in the water but when working on the boat in the heat, I
just dont want to take the time to do that until suddenly I
realize, uh oh, am doing stupid things...............
So, salt tabs or not?

What a difference up here in our climate.
Most times I'll leave the house around 1030..drive to launch
site..boat f
or
a few hours and drive home by 1630 or so..without one drop of water
or anything else.
Doesn't bother me a bit...in fact it keeps the bathroom breaks down
on a small open aluminum boat. ;-)- Hide quoted text -

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A human is always sweating, using up body water.

Drinking plain water in enough quantity can kill you. Some people think
it's cause you "drown" but in reality, it's cause you mess up your
electrolyte balance. It's called "water intoxication". You can google that
term or read about it he

http://kidneydiseases.about.com/od/k...toxication.htm

Per the article, some people got into trouble, because they were sweating
excessivley (usually atheletes) and just like you, "they were losing larges
amounts of both water and sodium in their sweat but they were replacing
their fluid loses with water only." You need to replace that sodium, or
your problem will continue. If you're sweating a ton, you have to replace
the salt, not just the water.

If you don't like sport drinks or salt tablets, try eating some salty foods
such as potato chips or salted nuts. We do our boating on Lake Mojave.
Temps avg 105 to 115 degF. I've seen the consequence of all water and no
salt. The symptons are similar to dehydration.