Talk:Hydration

Brand-name products -- Kmdenmark (talk) 15:44, November 15, 2019 (EST)

I removed the recommendations for brand-name products. MEpedia guidelines state: "MEpedia does not give advice or recommendations. You may describe advice given by specific professionals or patient groups, if you make it clear who gave this advice." I have no problem listing a generic device that may be helpful (such as compression stockings being listed on the Hypotension page), but listing brand names implies an endorsement. Kmdenmark (talk) 15:44, November 15, 2019 (EST)

Content moved from page for discussion -- Pyrrhus (talk) 13:23, January 11, 2020 (EST)

The following content was moved from the page to this discussion page, to allow for discussion:

The simple solution to ensuring quality drinking water would be a fresh water tap, or filtering water. But what is not mentioned is adding calcium hypochlorite and/or calcium carbonate to the water supply may also be the direct cause of concomitant Hypercalcemia/Hyponatremia.(which is what chronic fatigue is.)

This website utterly failed to provide essential information to chronic fatigue sufferers that the source of their problem is ‘drinking water’ which nobody ever drinks.

MEpedia acted rashly and irresponsibly by removing the Hydration article. ME Pedia has no interest in providing solutions and may be contributing directly to hypochondria.

https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/2019/11/04/is-there-lead-in-your-water-canada-wide-investigation-exposes-chronic-extreme-exceedances-of-toxic-metal.html

Pyrrhus (talk) 13:23, January 11, 2020 (EST)

Reasons this article was deleted

The Hydration article was deleted because:

• it discussed a possible reason for 'chronic fatigue' (which is not ME/CFS) and thus not the purview of MEpedia,
• it did not meet the scientific guidelines set for MEpedia,
• it had many unsourced statements,
• at least one of the studies cited did not support the sentence it was referencing,
• hypercalcemia and hyponatremia are serious imbalances caused by underlying medical problems with the kidneys, hormones, or a malignancy; no scientific proof was given that these electrolyte imbalances are caused by tap water,
• pwME do not present with hypercalcemia and hyponatremia unless there is an underlying medical cause as stated previously,
• it orginally presented as spam for water filters and after the direct mention of filters was removed, it still alluded to water filters.

Kmdenmark (talk) 17:08, January 14, 2020 (EST)

Empty article

I have marked for deletion, but if scientific sources can be found that meet MEpedia:Science guidelines then it would be worth re-creating with the potential treatment category - bearing in mind that potential treatments are covered whether they are for specific symptoms (like chronic fatigue) or the entire illness. However, if this page is only created to market a product then that's inappropriate.

The mentions of Hypercalcemia Hyponatremia are worthwhile, I have added as wanted pages. ~Njt (talk) 14:55, April 16, 2020 (PDT)