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dr_okonkwoTL4 Moderator13 Jun 2026#1

Community wiki post. Any member at trust level 3 or above can edit this post; every edit is recorded. Last edited by mira.patel on 21 Jun 2026.

6 Jul 2026 — dr_okonkwo: Plain-language pass on the opening paragraph.
21 Jun 2026 — mira.patel: Corrected an arithmetic slip in the second example.

Editors: dr_okonkwo, mira.patel, hana.sato

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Fluid intake, sodium, potassium and magnesium, and the very ordinary causes of week-two malaise.

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Questions specific to hydration & electrolytes, with the units and the context stated.
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Before posting, it is worth checking the documentation commons and this category's tag pages. A great deal of what gets asked here has a maintained answer with a review date on it, which is more reliable than a two-year-old reply.

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KLindqvistTL4 Moderator28 Jun 2026#2

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Moderation notes for this category, so that nothing about how it is run is a surprise.

Topics get moved into and out of here regularly. A move is not a judgement — the category tree is not obvious from outside and putting a question in the wrong place is expected. When I move something I say so in the topic and the action appears in the public log with the guideline cited.

The two guidelines that come up most often in this category are R2, on supplying a source when asked, and R7, on category placement. Neither is used punitively.

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formulary_notesTL3Regular9 Jul 2026#3

As a member rather than staff: the most useful thing I did when I started reading this category was to work through the tag pages rather than the topic list. The topic list shows you what is recent. The tags show you what is settled.

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c.amankwahTL2 Moderator18 Jul 2026#4

Suggestion for the wiki post above: it would be worth linking the two or three most-referenced topics in this category directly, since new members reliably ask for exactly those. Happy to make the edit myself if nobody objects, with a revision note.

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r.lundgrenTL2 Moderator27 Jul 2026#5

Two things before anyone answers the substance.

First, the context in the first post is clear and specific. Second, the question is framed so that an answer can actually address it. Both are the norm here and both matter more than they sound.

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