By Dr. Susan Heller, Chief Medical Officer, Three Lollies
Navigating a medical condition or undergoing intensive treatment can place significant demands on your body. Between doctor appointments, medication schedules, and managing side effects, even everyday activities can become challenging. One important aspect of caring for yourself during this time is maintaining proper hydration.
Staying hydrated is essential for overall health, but it can become more difficult during illness, medical treatment, and recovery. Symptoms such as nausea, changes in appetite, fever, sweating, vomiting, or diarrhea may affect how much fluid you drink or how much your body loses. In some circumstances, your body may also lose important electrolytes, making hydration needs more complex.
Developed with Your Needs in Mind
The healthcare professionals behind Three Lollies have spent years developing gentle, practical wellness products for people experiencing nausea and digestive discomfort. Through their work with patients and families, they recognized another important need: a convenient, enjoyable way to support hydration during illness, medical treatment, and recovery.
Working with an oncology dietitian, they developed Clinical Hydration, a thoughtfully formulated drink mix that combines essential electrolytes, selected nutrients, and botanical ingredients.
The goal was to create a simple, easy-to-use product with no artificial flavors or colors and less than 5 grams of sugar per serving. Each packet mixes with 16–20 ounces of water to create a refreshing berry-flavored drink.
Clinical Hydration brings together sodium, potassium, magnesium, glutamine, vitamin C, ginger root, and peppermint to provide hydration and nutritional support when taking care of yourself may feel especially challenging.
Replenishing Essential Electrolytes
When your body loses fluids through sweating, fever, vomiting, or diarrhea, it can also lose electrolytes. These essential minerals help regulate fluid balance and support normal muscle, nerve, and cellular function.
Clinical Hydration includes three important electrolytes:
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Sodium: Plays an essential role in maintaining fluid balance and supporting the absorption of water in the digestive tract.
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Potassium: Works alongside sodium to help regulate fluid balance and support normal nerve and muscle function.
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Magnesium: Contributes to normal muscle and nerve function and supports the body's energy-producing processes.
Together, these electrolytes help support the body's normal hydration and physiological functions.
Supporting Digestive Health and Immune Function
Hydration is only one part of maintaining wellness during periods of physical stress. Proper nutrition also plays an important role in supporting the body's everyday functions.
Clinical Hydration includes two additional nutrients:
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Glutamine: An amino acid that serves as an important energy source for cells lining the digestive tract. It plays a role in maintaining normal intestinal function and supporting the health of the digestive system.
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Vitamin C: An essential nutrient that supports normal immune function and helps the body produce collagen, a protein involved in maintaining healthy tissues.
These ingredients complement the electrolyte blend by providing additional nutritional support.
Thoughtfully Selected Botanical Ingredients
During medical treatment or recovery, changes in taste, appetite, and digestive comfort can make drinking enough fluids more difficult. Some people experience sensitivity to flavors, while others find plain water less appealing than usual.
With these challenges in mind, Clinical Hydration includes ginger root and peppermint, two botanical ingredients with a long history of traditional use in digestive wellness.
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Ginger Root: Traditionally used to support digestive comfort and valued for its distinctive botanical properties.
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Peppermint: A familiar botanical ingredient traditionally associated with digestive wellness and appreciated for its refreshing qualities.
Combined with a delicate berry flavor, these ingredients help create a pleasant, easy-to-drink hydration option.
Clinical Hydration is formulated without artificial flavors or colors and is designed to fit into a variety of dietary preferences, including vegan, gluten-free, and non-GMO lifestyles.
Taking Care of Yourself, One Sip at a Time
Every medical journey is different, and your hydration needs may change throughout treatment and recovery. Some days, drinking enough fluids may feel easy. Other days, even small steps toward maintaining your daily routine can feel like an accomplishment.
Clinical Hydration was created with these moments in mind.
By combining essential electrolytes, carefully selected nutrients, and botanical ingredients in a convenient drink mix, Clinical Hydration offers a simple way to support everyday hydration and wellness.
Because taking care of yourself matters, one sip at a time.
If you are undergoing medical treatment or managing a health condition, speak with your healthcare team before introducing a new supplement. Clinical Hydration is intended to support everyday hydration and is not a substitute for medical treatment or prescribed rehydration therapy.
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Thoughtfully developed by healthcare professionals with an oncology dietitian to make hydration support simple, convenient, and refreshing.
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