Cramp .

[Steven P]

Hydration helps - drinking - but if you need to hydrate you need to replace the salts lost in sweating too - electrolytes can help - check out say cyclist or runners shops for hydration tablets, or a pharmacist for the same - these have the right salts and minerals in. Natural cures would be salting food and bananas - bananas have potassium salts and salt has normal salts, sometimes an inbalance of the 2 can cause cramps - If you are deficient in one then it will be topped up, but won't go over a limit with the other? Might be wrong there.

 

 

(else a bit minging... at the end of a long (running) race one runner had a cramp, another runner suggested "You need salts, lick my face" (the salts lost in sweat were now dried on his face as a handy salt lick) )

[kram]

I used to run a lot, while I tried and still use electrolyte tablets in my drinks, Im not convinced they did anything. Any time I tried a long, physically exhausting run (say 20km, up and down the steep mountian bike trails of the south downs), there would be cramp. Somone suggested me to try Swimming afterwards. Cramp whilst swimming and half drowning is quite unpleasant!

 

Do you get cramp after being idle or are you physically exhausted at some point on the day it occurs?

 

Currently I often get toe cramp when I try to click my toes.

Edited 10 hours ago by kram

[Stubby]

  10 hours ago, kram said:

I used to run a lot, while I tried and still use electrolyte tablets in my drinks, Im not convinced they did anything. Any time I tried a long, physically exhausting run (say 20km, up and down the steep mountian bike trails of the south downs), there would be cramp. Somone suggested me to try Swimming afterwards. Cramp whilst swimming and half drowning is quite unpleasant!

 

Do you get cramp after being idle or are you physically exhausted at some point on the day it occurs?

 

Currently I often get toe cramp when I try to click my toes.

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I am completely retired now Kram  (72) so less regular heavy physical work . So , on the odd occasion I do some graft I get the cramp sometime later , whilst in bed or getting off the sofa that kinda thing . To be fair , when I was on the saw all day I only got it later in the evening never when actually grafting .