Joanne Smith explains SaltStick electrolyte tablets: 100 mg sodium, 30 mg potassium, and other minerals per tablet, max 15 daily. She recounts a cautionary tale of someone who took 60 tablets and got severely sick, illustrating why you should follow the dosage on the packet.
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Electrolyte Fast. Choose lemon and lime flavor. You can get orange flavor. Salt stick. Reduce heat stress, reduce muscle cramping, maintain electrolyte levels, boost the stamina. Uh, honestly, I'm in Holland and Barrett and I'm, um, my— it was my brother that told me about these and I tried one and I thought, oh, they taste quite nice, they're like sweets. And when I went in the Holland and Barrett, I had a better look at the packet and I was like, oh, definitely need some of these. They have 100 milligrams of sodium, 30 milligrams of potassium, 10 milligrams of calcium, 6 milligrams of magnesium, and they're chewable. You get 10 in a bag. You're allowed a maximum of 15 in 24 hours. I actually, funny story, but I was chatting with another guy during the event and he, and he had some of these and I said to him, oh, I said, oh, have you been having them? And I said, oh, how many have— I can't remember what I said to him, but we got chatting about how many and he, he told me Oh my God. I think he told me that the last event he had 60 and he'd been really unwell and, um, and he'd suffered with, with this, um, stomach issues and he'd had to drop out of the event. But I think he said he'd had 60 of these and I said to him, I said, I've been reading the packet, I said, and it says on the back of the packet that you should only have 15 in 24 hours.