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@Scott F posted:

it’s best to ignore glib, uninformed treatment instructions.

Agree- Stick with the advice of your medical doctors.

Bubba- regarding hydration- I also drink Gatorade Zero and it has safe amounts of potassium and electrolytes. As mentioned by the prior posters, very low and very high potassium levels can cause a potentially life threatening situation (it can lead to cardiac arrest). My recollection is that there was a rash of such deaths at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC in the early 1990s which was caused by infusing potassium to patients who were very low in potassium after colectomy and other surgical procedures disrupting electrolytes. The human body cannot handle rapid absorption of large quantities of concentrated potassium. This caused a change in hospital procedure, and those who had life threatening low levels of potassium after surgery, of which I was one, were required to imbibe it rather than get infused with it. To slow down the absorption and also limit the quantity. That's the very highly concentrated stuff though, which is blood red in color and has the most vile taste you can imagine. Gatorade Zero, on the other hand, is harmless and probably also doesn't have enough potassium in it to meaningfully treat kidney stones or do anything other than help maintain a proper electrolyte balance. Which of course is itself a way to prevent recurring kidney stones.

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