Home remedies · Everyday life & travel
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Drink spread across the day, before thirst arrives. Put exertion into the morning hours, light pale clothing, cool forearms and neck with cold water.
Thirst lags behind the loss, especially with age. At the forearms and neck the vessels lie shallow — cooling works faster there than elsewhere.
Very large amounts of water with no salt at all can backfire after hours of heavy sweating. With long exertion something salty belongs with it.
Confusion, dry hot skin, vomiting or clouded consciousness is no longer exhaustion — that is an emergency.
Have it assessed: heat with confusion, dry hot skin or clouded consciousness — that is more than exhaustion. A one-sided swollen leg after a long journey. And anything new that does not go away within a few days.