Bad Shed/Wrinkly skin

[Spirit]

Actually, for sereve dehydration, a body needs salts, not sugars. Water is fine to stay hydrated, but if you're (for example) going hiking on a warm day, your body loses a lot of salt, and that salt must be replenished. Having said that, do not drink "salt water" (table or ocean). lol Adding table salt to your meals helps as well. Sugar will help boost your energy (carbs) but not much else.

Also, cotton kills. (How to survive in the wilderness... old habits die hard). LOL

[BAFlathead]

i take it you have never been in a factory where it gets REALLY hot and humid. i haven't heard of anyone doing it in the last 10 years , but it used to be common practice to have a water table with salt tablets available to keep you from having a heat stroke from dehydration. same principal.

In fact, every outdoors survival/first aid kit that i owned growing up came with salt tablets in case you started to become dehydrated.

[nita]

They don't advise the use of salt tablets anymore. Can't remember why but when I took my first aide course they said they are no longer used. My dad though had a guy go into convulsions on a job site due to heat stroke, the kid had been drinking water all day but since he had not eaten anything he still got heat stroke and the first thing the paramedics did when they got there was give him 2 bags of salt water through the IV, he was up and talking before they carted him off to the hospital.