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[venta]

I need a little shopping advice.

I often wake up, in the night, with dreadful cramp in my legs. This is not pleasant. Some time ago, someone recommended drinking one of those modern-fangled isotonic-flavoured electrolye-ridden buzzword-compliant sports drinks before going to bed.

I bought a drum of lemon-flavoured powder from (I think) Boots and... hey presto! Miracles were worked, and my legs did not tie themselves into excruciating knots in the night.

Enter a second friend, who assured me that the water was the important part and that I was merely paying for the caché of sports drinks unnecessarily. So, this summer (cramp seems to be a summer problem, for me) I stuck to drinking water before bed. Friend2 was wrong. It does not have the same effect.

So, off to Boots I went. And then to Superdrug, Holland & Barrett, Tesco... Nope. No one sells the damn stuff any more. According to Boots' website, they do still sell drums of mixable powder but they now only do orange flavour. Also, I have yet to catch a branch which actually stocks the damn stuff (and the website is out of stock, too).

Can anyone recommend a powdered sports drink which is (a) cheap and (b) available in something non-orange? I only require the re-hydration parts, not the energy parts, since I'll be drinking it before bed. For preference I'd like something available in high street shops, since I don't think my ego will permit me to become the sort of person who orders highly specialised sports beverages off t'internet.

Either that, or I'll just have to settle for squash made up with homebrew ORS. Which might work, but would probably taste nasty.

Comments

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Is it the sodium or the chloride in the salt that one needs? If the former and you're averse to over-salty tastes, maybe sodium bicarbonate would work instead? (you'd need a larger mass of it to get the same amount of sodium, though)

[venta.livejournal.com]

The sodium, I believe. Bi-carb isn't honestly much more appealing, really.

In fact, I still think that the nicely-fruit-flavoured commerical pre-mixed salts are the way to go :)

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

but bicarb can make things all nice and fizzy!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Bi-carb can make things all fizzy :)