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Pedialyte is an OTC rehydration drink for both children and adults

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Pedialyte is an OTC rehydration drink for both children and adults. It's one of the most effective and safest treatments available for mild to moderate dehydration. Because it contains electrolytes, it's more effective than drinking only water if you've lost a lot of fluids. Pedialyte is intended to rehydrate people of all ages, from toddlers to adults. It's often recommended to people recovering from the stomach flu, other viruses, and athletes. In contrast, Gatorade is recommended for adults, specifically athletes, and it's meant to meet their athletic needs. Pedialyte® freezer pops are not for use in children under 2 years of age. Children <10 years: Consult a health care professional. Adults, adolescents, and children ≥ 10 years: Take/give 400 mL–2 L per day as needed, or as directed by a health care professional.

Drinking Pedialyte every day is not ideal, especially if you're on a salt-restricted diet and have high blood pressure.

Drinking Pedialyte every day is not ideal, especially if you're on a salt-restricted diet and have high blood pressure

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What are examples of chronic illness?A disease or condition that usually lasts for 3 months or longer and may get worse over time

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What are examples of chronic illness?
A disease or condition that usually lasts for 3 months or longer and may get worse over time. Chronic diseases tend to occur in older adults and can usually be controlled but not cured. The most common types of chronic disease are cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and arthritis.

Chronic diseases are long-lasting conditions that usually can be controlled but not cured. People living with chronic illnesses often must manage daily symptoms that affect their quality of life, and experience acute health problems and complications that can shorten their life expectancy.

Psychological Stages of Chronic Pain
Denial. Denial is often the first psychological stage when confronted with a chronic pain diagnosis. ...
Pleading, bargaining, and desperation. ...
Anger. ...
Anxiety and depression. ...
Loss of self and confusion. ...
Reevaluation of life, roles, and goals. ...
Acceptance.

What triggers chronic illness?
Behavioural risk factors, such as tobacco use, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity; and. Intermediate risk factors, such as elevated blood lipids, diabetes, high blood pressure and overweight/obesity.

 Intermediate risk factors, such as elevated blood lipids, diabetes, high blood pressure and overweight/obesity

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During  more research on her claims I came across this that might be something she's been doing.. I'm no expert by any means but something about how she describes her stuff that she claims I don't know if it's completely true.
Any way here is the research on Factitious Disorder:

Factitious disorder symptoms involve mimicking or producing illness or injury or exaggerating symptoms or impairment to deceive others. People with the disorder go to great lengths to hide their deception, so it may be difficult to realize that their symptoms are actually part of a serious mental health disorder. They continue with the deception, even without receiving any visible benefit or reward or when faced with objective evidence that doesn't support their claims.

Factitious disorder signs and symptoms may include:

Clever and convincing medical or psychological problems

Extensive knowledge of medical terms and diseases
Vague or inconsistent symptoms
Conditions that get worse for no apparent reason
Conditions that don't respond as expected to standard therapies
Seeking treatment from many different doctors or hospitals, which may include using a fake name
Reluctance to allow doctors to talk to family or friends or to other health care professionals
Frequent stays in the hospital
Eagerness to have frequent testing or risky operations
Many surgical scars or evidence of numerous procedures
Having few visitors when hospitalized
Arguing with doctors and staff.

How those with factitious disorder fake illness

Because people with factitious disorder become experts at faking symptoms and diseases or inflicting real injuries upon themselves, it may be hard for health care professionals and loved ones to know if illnesses are real or not.

People with factitious disorder make up symptoms or cause illnesses in several ways, such as:

Exaggerating existing symptoms. Even when an actual medical or psychological condition exists, they may exaggerate symptoms to appear sicker or more impaired than is true.
Making up histories. They may give loved ones, health care professionals or support groups a false medical history, such as claiming to have had cancer or AIDS. Or they may falsify medical records to indicate an illness.
Faking symptoms. They may fake symptoms, such as stomach pain, seizures or passing out.
Causing self-harm. They may make themselves sick, for example, by injecting themselves with bacteria, milk, gasoline or feces. They may injure, cut or burn themselves. They may take medications, such as blood thinners or drugs for diabetes, to mimic diseases. They may also interfere with wound healing, such as reopening or infecting cuts.
Tampering. They may manipulate medical instruments to skew results, such as heating up thermometers. Or they may tamper with lab tests, such as contaminating their urine samples with blood or other substances.

Prevention
Because the cause of factitious disorder is unknown, there's currently no known way to prevent it. Early recognition and treatment of factitious disorder may help avoid unnecessary and potentially dangerous tests and treatment.

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