How are you keeping hydrated during this hot weaather?

I have a thing about lemon barley water at the moment. So refreshing.

Ellie Anne

Hot weather? What’s that ?

Where are you?

It was 34 c as I left a seaside resort in north norfolk today.

Hot weather? What’s that ?

Coffee this morning
about 4pts of water throughout the day
coffee now

All the comments about 'thirst' here remind me that once one is thirsty, that's the first sign of dehydration. Steadily drinking more water than normal during hot weather is probably a good habit to adopt. In my garden today the thermometer reads 36 in the shade - and that's now at 7.10pm. Anything outside that is not done before 8.30am, we don't bother with. Had sunstroke once, years ago. Not very nice. Now I'm old and a lot more sensible, I stay out of the heat during the hottest parts of the day and, like the bats, come out at night! 🦇

I’m about to go and sit in the garden (the sun is off the patio now) with a ginger beer shandy. 🙂

I have an infallible way of telling if I need a drink. It’s called thirst.

What the heck?
It's a lovely summers day. Such a lot of nonsense talked about dehydration these days. Normal healthy people just need to drink according to thirst.
Puts tin hat on

What hot weather?

Here it is more like late September than July, and not at all warm.

If it were I would be drinking water, coffee, tea, buttermilk etc. all day .

Very hot here (west coast of Canada) with heat warnings on the radio. I drink lots of water but woke up one morning with a touch of heatstroke. .. thumping headache and unsteady on the old pins. I drank a litre of water and ate a cracker with marmite and was as right as ninepence within the hour.

PS The weather isn't hot wheere I am but I drink approximately the same anount of fluid every day. Seems to have worked so far.

I use the same method human beings throughout the ages have used: I drink what's available when I'm thirsty.

When water was generally not safe people drank ale (or similar) or they drank water and got horrible diseases like cholera. The introduction of tea and having to boil water to make it was astronomically helpful in getting enough water into people without it needing alcohol to 'sanitise' it.

The water in food counts too. I'm doing some cauliflower for part of our evening meal today. And the juice in fruits is well known to ease thirst. I ate loads of water melon when I worked in Thailand for that very reason. Never had any that tasted so good here.

Gin and tonic: if it worked for the Raj...

It's 28 degrees in my hall

I have this amazing solution.
I drink water.

Thanks MissInterpreted. No Asda near me, but I shall look in Tesco. And Waitrose among their yoghourts. Useful to have chilled ready to go in the fridge. Very cooling

It is a pleasant summers day, nothing to write home about. Being older one is almost certainly better off out of the sun and relaxing, but really common sense tells us that. As for hydration - well again I’m sure that most people are sufficiently hydrated. Being very elderly often means one looses one’s thirst, so as long as one is aware of this we will all survive I’m sure.

Now if the temperature was +35 c and upwards - then that is a different story altogether. And certainly care must be taken as one ages.

HelterSkelter1, I swear by ayran! I discovered it on our first ever holiday to Turkey more than 20 years ago, when I was feeling a bit off because of the heat. The lovely Turkish family who owned the hotel we were staying at brought me some ayran and said it was the best thing to drink in the heat, and I've been hooked on it ever since! I usually make my own, but happened to spot a carton of ready-made ayran in Asda this morning, so bought some of that.

Sago

I’m sorry but I have to say it’s a summers day in most parts of the country, nothing the country hasn’t seen before.
Do we really need all these warnings?

I tend to agree!
Common sense?
Drinking more does it for me (sparkling water because I like the taste) or herbal tea.
I think this is our Third warm day (normal for the time of year) - it’s not the heatwave of 1976!

On another thread I mentioned the drink I was going to make today. 1 cup of plain yoghourt and 1 1/2 cups of cold water with a good pinch of salt. Like Indian lassi and Turkish aryan (?). Whisked up and with a few mint leaves to serve. Will make it shortly.

I was waiting for an exercise class when a man in the seated class before mine passed out. Ambulance came extremely quickly and diagnosed extreme dehydration. It wasn’t a warm day

I’m sorry but I have to say it’s a summers day in most parts of the country, nothing the country hasn’t seen before.
Do we really need all these warnings?

Theexwife

I always drink 2 litres of water a day anyway along with tea and coffee so for the 2 days of hot weather will be fine.

Me too!

Warm here but not hot 😏

it is red hot here