Ive had my jpouch for two years now. I was very blessed to have a healthy baby girl this past March. Ever since i gave birth my bowrl habits have really changed and ive been very dehydrated for a few months. im trying to drink gatorade, powerade, and even pedialyte but it only seems to Work for a day then The next day im back feeling light headed and dehydrated all over again. Do you think The antibiotics i have been taking are contributing to The dehydration? So far ive been on flagyl, cipro, and xifan. Any ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated. I would really like to hear from different peoples perspective. Please please please help!! Thank you!
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Are you nursing? If not...I was told to drink extra liquids while on flagyl and cipro. I drink Heed Perpetuem after 2 to 3 hours of exercise. Otherwise I just drink water, oj and apple cider.
I find that Gatorade and Powerade do me more harm than good for me due to the amount of sugar in them. They make me go more.
On the crohnsforum another guy talked about making his own sports drink, for which there are recipes online.
"Being without a colon as well, I do get dehydrated. One thing I've done is add more salt and potassium to my diet. One good way I do this is to add Morton's Lite Salt to my juice, ice tea, lemonade, etc. I'll even make my own sports drink- there are recipes on line for homemade gatorade or homemade sports drink, and they are all easy to make. We don't absorb salt or potassium as well without a colon and I find I do feel better adding it back in."
Good luck.
On the crohnsforum another guy talked about making his own sports drink, for which there are recipes online.
"Being without a colon as well, I do get dehydrated. One thing I've done is add more salt and potassium to my diet. One good way I do this is to add Morton's Lite Salt to my juice, ice tea, lemonade, etc. I'll even make my own sports drink- there are recipes on line for homemade gatorade or homemade sports drink, and they are all easy to make. We don't absorb salt or potassium as well without a colon and I find I do feel better adding it back in."
Good luck.
I drink Smart Water like no one's business-I've begun to think I should probably buy some stock with as much as I drink. It has all of the electrolytes in it, but is just water, so it doesn't have sugar/artifical sugars in it. Something to look into if you haven't tried it already....
Homemade lemonaide and peanuts work well for me...gives me the potassium, sodium, glucose (or not depending if I use real sugar or not) and tons of minerals with the lemon, mint leaves etc...I drink it all day long and it is very refreshing...sometimes I squeeze a tangerine into it as well...tomato juice helps a lot too expecially if you blend it with herbs for the extra minerals (celery salt helps too)...
Sharon
Sharon
Thank you
get rid of sugar things and fake sugar things. Gatoraide and G2 for me just increase dehydration.
Try only pedialyte since you already have been using it intermittenlty.. and no other drinks throughout the day. not even plain water. sip all throughout the day. no chugging. try not to drink with meals.
also you can try Ceralyte - but I found it tastes awful. or a true WHO (world health organization) solution. They are closest to what our bodies need to replace. I get packets from Jianas brothers and mix one packet with one thing of crystal lite in a one liter bottle. This is by far the cheapest alternative I have found. My docs have me drinking about 2.5liters a day.
Try only pedialyte since you already have been using it intermittenlty.. and no other drinks throughout the day. not even plain water. sip all throughout the day. no chugging. try not to drink with meals.
also you can try Ceralyte - but I found it tastes awful. or a true WHO (world health organization) solution. They are closest to what our bodies need to replace. I get packets from Jianas brothers and mix one packet with one thing of crystal lite in a one liter bottle. This is by far the cheapest alternative I have found. My docs have me drinking about 2.5liters a day.
Lookup Vitalyte. I found it from another forum and I swear by it.
Very low sugars and extremely good at re-hydration.
Very low sugars and extremely good at re-hydration.
sara1986: Well all I can say is... I had a jpouch done in 2001 and for the last many years I've dealt with dehydration and malabsorbtion. My concerns and thoughts are with you as the research continues. Good old water is the best. But I have more trouble with dehydration when I'm in an infection cycle. So keep an eye on that. I do pretty good during my "good" peroid watching fluid intake. Watch the muscle cramps and other things that you will become acquainted with. Best of luck.
Coconut water helps me the most when I'm dehydrated and it's easy to find.