Hydration For Travel: Why ORS Hydration Tablets are an Essential for Every Carry-On

You've packed everyone's passports, all the chargers and adapters, and all the guidebooks and beach books you'll ever need. You feel sorted. But there’s one carry-on essential that’s easy to overlook, that is, until you’re 3 hours into a flight with a throbbing headache and a dry mouth. Travel hydration tablets.

Whether you’re chasing a red-eye, looking to max out on holiday time, or you’re prepping for a long-haul to the other side of the world, staying hydrated can be the difference between landing ready to explore or heading straight to the hotel for a lie down and five carafes of water.

Why Do You Need to Worry About Electrolytes For Flying?

Travel puts your body through much more than you realise. Early starts throw off your body’s natural rhythm before you’ve made it out of the front door, aircraft cabins are notoriously dry, and jumping between climates, cold at home and blazing hot abroad, adds another layer of strain to your body. Then there are things like travel tummy. The effect of unfamiliar cuisine or less-than-trustworthy tap water can disrupt a well-planned holiday programme. 

Any of these things can chip away at your hydration levels, leaving you feeling well below your best at a time when you’re supposed to be enjoying yourself. Plan ahead, pack electrolytes for flying.

Can You Take Supplements on a Plane?

Not only can you take supplements on a plane for hydration (they’re not liquids, so they are allowed in your bag), you absolutely should. The morning before a flight is often the perfect storm for a day spent dehydrated. An early alarm, a rushed or completely forgotten breakfast, then out the door and in the car in minutes with no drink. Add some pre-flight stress and that airport coffee-and-beer combo, and you could be dehydrated by the time your gate's announced.

Once you’re in the air, this can get worse. Cabin air is kept at a low humidity, 10–20%, as opposed to the 30–60% we’re used to on the ground. By the time air is pulled from the thin, freezing atmosphere outside, compressed, heated and circulated, there’s very little moisture. Cabin air then pulls moisture from your skin, throat and eyes, and it’s a big reason some people feel so parched, foggy and fatigued while flying.

Plain water helps replace lost fluids, but if you've also lost electrolytes, it won't replace those. This is where travel hydration tablets earn their place in your carry-on. Dissolve in water, sip regularly, and you’ll be replacing the sodium, potassium and chloride that will help your body manage fluid levels, muscle and nerve function.

Travel Hydration

Landing somewhere hot and sunny is half the appeal of a holiday. But higher temperatures mean more sweating, and more sweating means more fluid and electrolyte loss. When you’re somewhere warm, hiking, swimming, sightseeing, out on your feet all day, or even just more than normal, your body’s fluid demands can go up.

Then there’s the food and water question. A change in cuisine, and in some places, less-than-reliable tap water, are big reasons so many holidays get interrupted by upset stomachs. If you’re unlucky enough to have this happen to you, having travel hydration on hand is a big help. Especially if you don’t fancy asking a foreign pharmacy for electrolyte tablets in a language you don’t speak. Play it safe, pack electrolytes in your bag.

How O.R.S Can Help

O.R.S Hydration Tablets are designed with travel in mind. Compact, lightweight and, crucially, for flying, solid, not liquid, our tablets can help you stay hydrated from early morning departures on day one right through to your holiday. 

What’s in them?

Our everyday tablets are a scientifically balanced blend of electrolytes that supports effective hydration. Formulated by pharmacists and perfect for travel hydration. These tablets suit people who need a quick hydration boost to make the most out of their holiday.

Ingredients

(per 2 tablets in 200ml of water)

Potassium 193mg: Potassium contributes to normal muscle function and normal nervous system function.

Sodium 277mg: Sodium contributes to normal fluid balance and is an important electrolyte lost in sweat.

Chloride 352mg: Chloride is an important electrolyte involved in normal fluid balance and acid-base balance.

Glucose 3.27g: Our tablets contain a small functional dose of glucose, which helps enhance electrolyte absorption to hydrate you faster.

How to take O.R.S Hydration Tablets

Dissolve TWO tablets in 200ml of water to prepare the electrolyte solution.

• Adults: Drink 200ml of mixed solution for rapid hydration.
• Kids (6+ Years): 200ml of mixed solution when required.
• Kids (3-6 Years): 10ml solution per kg body weight (small sips)
• Kids (under 3): O.R.S Kids Hydration tablets may be used at 10ml solution per kg body weight, given in small sips, only under the guidance, supervision or recommendation of a healthcare professional.

Don’t Let Dehydration Derail Your Trip

You've planned the itinerary, booked the flights, and packed for every occasion. Don't let something as preventable as dehydration slow you down. A tube of O.R.S Hydration Tablets takes up less space than a phone charger and could save you a wasted afternoon in bed instead of on the beach.

Pop a tube in your carry-on today and travel ready for whatever the trip throws at you. And if you are heading away more than once this Summer, we have a travel bundle for that.