Comments on: Wordless Video for Haiti: How To Make Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) in camps, to combat cholera http://boingboing.net/2010/11/11/wordless-video-for-h.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 09:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/11/11/wordless-video-for-h.html#comment-936498 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-936498 It's not cups, it's "caps" -- as in the bottle caps of sugar and salt. Cups of sugar and salt would make for a disgusting drink unless you had gallons of water you were mixing in as well. Finally, anyone who has access to a milligram scale would probably not need to be mixing their own rehydration liquid -- this recipe is for areas so poor they don't even own spoons, according to the blog. It’s not cups, it’s “caps” — as in the bottle caps of sugar and salt.

Cups of sugar and salt would make for a disgusting drink unless you had gallons of water you were mixing in as well.

Finally, anyone who has access to a milligram scale would probably not need to be mixing their own rehydration liquid — this recipe is for areas so poor they don’t even own spoons, according to the blog.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/11/11/wordless-video-for-h.html#comment-936530 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-936530 Don't want to trivialise this but I'm going to try this as a hangover cure. Don’t want to trivialise this but I’m going to try this as a hangover cure.

]]> By: TharkLord http://boingboing.net/2010/11/11/wordless-video-for-h.html#comment-936790 TharkLord Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-936790 Yes, the diarrhea bucket to hand washing transition was a bit confusing. My first thought was: "Good lord, are they washing in diarrhea?!?". This is also a great bit of information for those suffering from food poisoning or a severe case of the flu, either of which can lead to dehydration. Yes, the diarrhea bucket to hand washing transition was a bit confusing. My first thought was: “Good lord, are they washing in diarrhea?!?”.

This is also a great bit of information for those suffering from food poisoning or a severe case of the flu, either of which can lead to dehydration.

]]> By: kevin http://boingboing.net/2010/11/11/wordless-video-for-h.html#comment-936318 kevin Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-936318 So, is it important to wash your hands in the diarrhea bucket or can this step be modified? So, is it important to wash your hands in the diarrhea bucket or can this step be modified?

]]> By: gmoke http://boingboing.net/2010/11/11/wordless-video-for-h.html#comment-936335 gmoke Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-936335 I think it's washing your hands every time you prepared the sugar/salt water but it was a little confusing. Glad this was finally picked up. I posted it to Submitterator off of a globalvoices notice a few days ago and it got no traction at all. I think it’s washing your hands every time you prepared the sugar/salt water but it was a little confusing.

Glad this was finally picked up. I posted it to Submitterator off of a globalvoices notice a few days ago and it got no traction at all.

]]> By: sumud http://boingboing.net/2010/11/11/wordless-video-for-h.html#comment-936856 sumud Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-936856 This has been floating around since the quake last year, with great written instructions in Creole also, for those w/out (or maybe with) smart phone access. See the Cholera fact sheet- http://creole.hesperian.net/ This has been floating around since the quake last year, with great written instructions in Creole also, for those w/out (or maybe with) smart phone access. See the Cholera fact sheet- http://creole.hesperian.net/

]]> By: catgrin http://boingboing.net/2010/11/11/wordless-video-for-h.html#comment-938432 catgrin Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-938432 Heya #7 - Better to use it as a preventative. Keep a bottle by the bed and drink it before you go to sleep after a night of drinking. Serious note. This can and will save lives. I think the "lost in translation" bits were due to us living with working plumbing. This page is interesting http://www.hobotraveler.com/photostoilets01.shtml especially this comment "Sink in the Real Yogi Lodge in Varanasi, India - See the bar of soap - This is unusual in India, an this is the sink for the toilet. Actually having a sink is not normal in India." Heya #7 – Better to use it as a preventative. Keep a bottle by the bed and drink it before you go to sleep after a night of drinking.

Serious note. This can and will save lives. I think the “lost in translation” bits were due to us living with working plumbing.

This page is interesting

http://www.hobotraveler.com/photostoilets01.shtml

especially this comment “Sink in the Real Yogi Lodge in Varanasi, India – See the bar of soap –
This is unusual in India, an this is the sink for the toilet. Actually having a sink is not normal in India.”

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/11/11/wordless-video-for-h.html#comment-937975 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-937975 A better soundtrack would be Handel's "Water Music" *ducks and runs* A better soundtrack would be Handel’s “Water Music”

*ducks and runs*

]]> By: jgrassick http://boingboing.net/2010/11/11/wordless-video-for-h.html#comment-936440 jgrassick Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-936440 I've been using this very sugar/salt water mix as an effective hangover preventer/cure for years. I’ve been using this very sugar/salt water mix as an effective hangover preventer/cure for years.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/11/11/wordless-video-for-h.html#comment-936441 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-936441 Definitely difficult to understand the process being presented. I hope they field-tested this with their target users first! Definitely difficult to understand the process being presented. I hope they field-tested this with their target users first!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/11/11/wordless-video-for-h.html#comment-936447 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-936447 So for the people living in a world ruled by metrical units of measurements how much is an usa (I presume) cup in milliliters or how much sugar goes in the water (and how much salt) in milligrams? Please, cups are confusing at best. So for the people living in a world ruled by metrical units of measurements how much is an usa (I presume) cup in milliliters or how much sugar goes in the water (and how much salt) in milligrams? Please, cups are confusing at best.

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