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I'm searching for a way to continue taking the cocktail while traveling, because it really helps. If I don't take it every day and just drink water, I pee and pee ) The trips are 4 & 6 days, so it seems worth it to try to do this so I feel better and don't deplete my mineral stores. It may be sunny, hot, and humid too, so sweating could be profuse.
Wondering if honey is OK to use as the sweetener for the cocktail--it has glucose and fructose, apparently. I bought a packet of raw honey sticks/straws, hoping those would be OK to sweeten it with. At home I normally use agave or maple syrup.
Car trips are no trouble, because I always travel with a cooler, and supplements are easy to pack in a separate bag, but I have two plane trips this summer. I will be staying in motels, so I will have to make sure I have access to a refrigerator or keep a borrowed cooler handy or buy a cheap styrofoam one to leave behind.
I thought of trying to find my almond milk locally once I get to my destinations, but that may be difficult. For the first trip, at least, I will most likely order the aseptic boxes online and have it mailed ahead of me to a relative's home.
Not sure if I can do that at the second place, because I'd have to send it to the motel, but I'm hoping I can find aseptic unsweetened almond milk in the city I'm flying into.
I will get some larger Nalgene bottles and put my liquid electrolytes and minerals in those. Then either triple-wrap them in my checked luggage or try to mail them to my destination ahead of time.
Baking soda I can pre-measure and carry in a small bottle wrapped in my checked bag and just pour out what I need each day. Same with protein powder if I decide to add that--I usually carry that in doubled ziploc bags or a small plastic jar in my checked luggage.
Would appreciate any tips. Thanks! Nutmeg
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Not sure if this is much help, but I just had to fly to Europe with my IV antibiotics.
I had 9 days worth of meds, plus the tubing, supplies, etc. for it, saline, and heparin, all in my carry on luggage (I actually only brought carry on).
We had a lot of connecting flights - Pittsburgh to Chicago to Madrid to Barcelona - and no one gave me any trouble about it.
I'd gotten copies of my prescriptions, and paperwork on my IV ahead of time, and didn't end up needing any of it. I asked at Pittsburgh if I had to go through separate security, and they said no. After that, I just put the bag through the X-ray like everyone else, and nobody said anything to me about it.
I'd say just be as prepared as you can be, if there's any paperwork you can get, or if you can get your doctor to write a note, it might help you out. I did luck out in not having anything that needs to be refrigerated, but you may want to Google flying with medications, as they have some tips for that kind of thing (people that need to fly with insulin, for example).
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Sorry, Lymetoo, I should have given more info.
This is Dr. K's rehydration cocktail I'm referring to. It calls for liquid minerals and electrolytes, a protein source (almond or other milk), baking soda, and a small amount of glucose as the sweetener to help get the minerals and electrolytes into the cells.
I don't consume stevia willingly
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- We're all used to avoiding sugar due to candida. I am unfamiliar with Dr. K's rehydration cocktail for KPU.
However, regarding the need for glucose -- with any kind of porphyria (KPU is one of those), a small amount glucose is vital at times and can, quite literally, save a life in a porphyria emergency.
You might call his office and ask about honey. Since I have porphyria - and glucose has saved my life a time or two - I asked this of a regular doctor once who thought honey would not be the same in my body as glucose. But much depends on if it's for prevention or to offset an emergency.
If you can reach Dr. K or his office can't tell you (if he's out of the country as he is for long periods of time), you could also contact the porphyria organizations in this thread. I've called the Canadian group before and they've been helpful with other questions:
Rather than glucose, when I could afford it, I would use a good greens powder instead and it worked like a charm. Green Vibrance was excellent for me. Beta Carotene is also an emergency treatment for porphyria attacks (and helps to prevent them). The greens powders have lots of beta carotene.
Green Vibrance comes in a canister but also in very nice single serving packets. Just add to water. This stuff has saved my life many times, too. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
It should be excellent for rehydration. The ingredients in this are fantastic and most are organic. It has enzymes, probiotics and liver support herbs, too.
These would pass through airport security a whole lot more easily than unlabeled white powder. You may know it's baking soda but they may think it could be anthrax or cocaine. Even in a checked bag, there is the possibility of a random search and cause you delays and a little more excitement than planned.
Even honey sticks could cause a fuss at security. I don't recall those being labeled individually. You can get packets of maple sugar, though. The Green Vibrance has always worked so well for me that I've just never gone the sugar route. It also makes such a great support drink for traveling. -
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The brain and cells need sugar to survive. The purpose for the Rehydration Cocktail is exactly for that reason - with sugar, honey, or maple sugar - any will do. Besides it makes it taste wonderful. A little bit willdoya.
I have never avoided sugar and never had a candida problem, but I do not use it in amounts as many are using it. I also eat tons of fruit and drink juices. If you have read what I have been posting for many years, the body creates the candida as a means of protecting itself and assuring its own survival, because the neurotoxins/metals/chemicals would otherwise kill us.
The sad part of that is that candida also has a life cycle and creates poo and pee, lives and dies, and this dead stuff is in addition to an already toxin overloaded body. Our body needs sugar of the right kind and in the right amount.
It is also not a bad idea to skip a few days of any regimen, it avoids automatically the body becoming allergic to a substance (which it does frequently) even to an innocent and desirable substance such as this Cocktail. That is why Dr.K. always recommends taking supplement vacations! In fact, he is getting away further and further from vitamin supplements, such as multiples, etc. for this very reason, and only correcting certain deficits to support healing. This has been his theme song for a few years at any of his conferences.
Sorry to permanently disagree with candida diets. Candida and any mucor/fungi etc is what comes up as a dysregulatory factor for all people who have done the Allergie Immun test. The villain is not the sugar, but the toxins who cause the system to promote candida. When the toxin load is taken down, candida also diminishes. So it is important to detox and reduce the metals and chemicals to let the body enjoy all the God-given foods, including wheat, in balanced amounts.
That is very much what helped me to overcome Lyme totally and completely.
I do not mean to offend anyone.
Take care.
Take care.
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Thank you all for the great responses! I'm thinking now that I will try to do the rehydration cocktail during my 6-day plane trip, which comes up first. Then once I see how that goes, decide about the 4-day plane trip later on.
I will not try to carry baking soda in my luggage--white powder would definitely arouse suspicion if it got discovered. I'll ask my relative if she has any I can use, or just buy a 69-cent box myself once I get there and leave it behind when I go.
Hmmm, come to think of it, I have carried d-ribose powder with me in the past. That's something I like to take every day, too, to help my muscles recover from travel stress and help the mitochondria.
I'll look for maple sugar packets--the HFS may carry maple sugar in a bulk pack, at least.
The honey is labeled because I bought a packet of 25 sticks, all one flavor, but I don't need that many for a 6-day trip.
Carrying dry maple sugar would be easier. Too bad those maple Santa's are not in season right now...I could just crumble off what I needed.
Dr. K's rehydration cocktail is for anyone, not just people with porphyria/KPU. I do find that it helps me feel better and have fewer muscle cramps.
When I fly I often get awful cramps in one thigh because of too much sitting, not drinking enough water, and straining muscles through extra walking, climbing stairs, towing luggage, etc. When I drink more water, I just pee more and then get cramps anyway.
I am deficient in most minerals I've been tested for, so it seems like a good thing to keep up with rehydration during a stressful time like traveling.
I understand about supplement holidays--taking one today! Maybe the 4-day trip would be a good time to take one, but I will carry some trace and liquid minerals/electrolytes with me, at least.
The Green Vibrance sounds like a good product. I have a nice green drink I sometimes take, Pure Synergy, but I'm out right now. I have a couple sample packets of a green drink (Greens First) that I carry with my supplements when I travel. Good to have when I'm feeling wiped out.
I'm doing the rehydration cocktail on my own, not on a doctor's order, and I don't see Dr. K. So getting a doctor's note would involve another appointment and a lot of explaining...no time for that right now.
I'm thankful I don't have real, life-saving Rx meds to worry about traveling with, and have a lot of respect for people who have to go through hassles to do that.
Maybe I will just mail ahead a package of supplies to the relative's home we're going to visit. Not staying with her, but she'll hold on to it for me.
Again, thank you all. This has been very helpful.
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Is there a link for this cocktail? I did a search and didn't find it.
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quote:Originally posted by Nutmeg: Carrying dry maple sugar would be easier. Too bad those maple Santa's are not in season right now...I could just crumble off what I needed.
Nutmeg, I just checked, and Amazon carries maple sugar.
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