Chronic sore throat and thirst are two of my constant physical symptoms, but worse at times. Not sure if in a crash its worse for me. I have lots of tricks to deal with it, including constant drinking of water or other simple beverages. I find herbal ginger tea sometimes helpful. So is icy cold carbonated water. Lately I have been using a peppermint alcohol based mouthwash a bit, but need to be careful not to swallow any. When I order home delivered food the running joke for those in the know is its mainly for ice cold drinks, not the food. Anything to help my throat that is not sugar laced cough lozenges.
I used to eat ginger a lot, but had side effects as I was eating too much. Doh. I even had friends complain they could smell ginger just from entering any room I was in. Now what I did not try is sucking on sliced ginger root. I will have to try it. Thank you.
When I crashed three years ago (still haven't recovered from that one) I could gain 4kg in a week, and then drop it the next week. I still get water weight when I crash, but not as much (I guess it has to do with losing muscle over the last three years).Interesting you mention this thirst in PEM, @JemPD and @Midnattsol , I have that too but I've always thought it must be somehow connected to my weird excessive full body swelling that comes with PEM. Because when this swelling happens, I go to the bathroom a lot less often and I'm also terribly-terribly thirsty and somehow I thought these must be connected. But maybe not.
I always carry a small bottle of juice and a bar of sugar-free chocolate when I go out, to prevent excessive thirst, hunger or feeling sick.