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Is there a reason not to drink oral rehydration solution just as a part of everyday life? Maybe as a replacement for water in general, or maybe as a replacement for sports drinks? (In my case, I'd be inclined to take a bottle of it along when I go dancing.)
If this was a good idea I'd expect it to be sold in shops, and as far as I can tell it's not, but I don't know why.
It looks like a litre has about 100 calories of sugar, and half the RDA of salt, but I'm not sure how worrying that is.
Overhydration, but I'm not sure whether a sedentary person drinking it orally is at risk for that. (We know runners drinking hydration fluid and sedentary people taking hydration intravenously are at risk).
Empty calories, but you can offset that.
Excess salt (but it is now uncertain as to whether excess salt is harmful in the absence of high blood pressure).
It's also weird, as in it's both an evolutionary novel and culturally novel thing for you to do, and that means it's risky until proven innocent.