Your proportions are off. More sugar, much less salt.
For 1 litre / 1 quart, you'd add about 2 tablespoons (about 30--35g) sugar, and "a pinch" (1--2 g) of salt.
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Fluid-Replacement-Drin...
For 1 litre / 1 quart, you'd add about 2 tablespoons (about 30--35g) sugar, and "a pinch" (1--2 g) of salt.
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Fluid-Replacement-Drin...
Salt concentrations are tricky too. Saline solution is ~3500mg/L of sodium, but that's over kill for drinking. Since you reabsorb some sodium when you sweat (less if you sweat more), you wouldn't want to replace lost water with an isotonic mixture.
My rationale is that the recipe should be free-standing and not presume other feeding. If that's a consideration, it's not part of the baseline assumptions and formula.
My principle beef with the suggestion I'd replied to is that it has far too much salt, more than I've seen suggested in any other sources I've run across.
If you've specific information that Wikihow is not reliable in this case, I'd be happy to see it.
> If you've specific information that Wikihow is not reliable in this case, I'd be happy to see it.
I think it's reasonable, and necessary, to say that the burden of proof is on the source (i.e. Wikihow); it's not up to others to establish their credibility. Imagine submitting a paper that makes a claim and says only 'prove it wrong'. The Internet is filled with unsubstantiated claims; not only do they do a lot of harm, practically readers don't have time to do the substantiating for them.
> Numerous other people have posted similar recipes / ratios.
In this day and age, we know that 'numerous people' is not evidence of accuracy.
Given that we're contrasting it to Some Guy on Hacker News, of the two, I'd tend to go with the more-reviewed site.
Your quesition is a fair one. I've answered it. But rather than actually confirm or refute the reference cited ... you're engaging in meta arguments. Given the ease of finding confirming or disproving evidence, that's ... kind of tedious.
If you'd prefer University of Virginia Medical School, their recipe is:
Homemade Oral Rehydration Solution Recipes Base Beverage Recipe Water 1 quart water ¾ teaspoon table salt 2 Tablespoons sugar
https://med.virginia.edu/ginutrition/wp-content/uploads/site...
We're not, afaik. In that and other points, I think you overlooked some parts of my comments or I didn't make them clearly enough, but I'm sure we both have better things to do!