Dr. Tyna Moore

Because that can make them sick and throw up even more.

It can...

there's a neuro-linguistic link to the rest of our gut, meaning there is a brain-tongue link to the rest of our body.

And it signals, I mean, in kindergarten terms, it signals our body to ready itself to absorb.

And so if we start pounding that without that signal having adequately happening, then we run the risk of not getting optimal absorption from what we're trying to put in us.

So I told my mom, swish it in your mouth.

swish it around in your mouth, let your mouth hear it.

We have taste different types of receptors in our tongue and actually throughout our whole body, in our guts too.

Same receptors, crazy, huh?

But it allows the brain to register, hey, it's coming and we need to turn on those pumps, if you will.

We need to ready the system.

And so we want to gently and slowly reintroduce the hydration.

Just because when someone's in severe, especially an elderly person is in really severe dehydration, their kidneys are at risk, their cardiovascular system is at risk, and in any age really, but particularly in the elderly, and we don't want to overload the system.

So I was real careful to make sure she was swishing and sipping and swishing and sipping.

And that suddenly turned on her thirst.

And she was like, oh, I'm thirsty again.

Okay, good.

That's a good sign.

I knew she was okay when she got mad at me.

When she got ornery and got mad at me, I was like, okay, we're good.