Pool Day: What to Drink Poolside (and the Snack-Bar Trap)

Sun loungers, chlorine, kids diving back in every 5 minutes: a pool day dehydrates as much as the beach — and the pool snack bar only sells sugar. Here's the perfect pool bag.

• 🏊 You dehydrate IN the water too: swimming makes you sweat (yes, really) and sun reflected off the water hits double — hence the post-pool headache
• 🎒 The smart pool bag: 1 big bottle of icy diluted INTI (INTI ice cubes inside), cut fruit in a box, and that's it — no snack bar needed
• 🔴 The pool snack-bar trap: neon slushes (~25g sugar), sodas (8-11g/100ml), water ices (15g) — kids ask hourly and end the day in a sugar-crash meltdown
• 🤧 The chlorine trick: scratchy throat and irritated nose after hours in chlorinated water — INTI's ginger-lemon bite soothes the throat better than a soda that dries it
• ☀️ The 3pm break: mandatory out-of-water, shade, sips of INTI — the ritual that prevents sunstroke in kids who « don't feel » the sun in the water

The successful pool day: icy INTI bottle in the bag, cut fruit, 3pm shade break, and the snack bar stays closed. The whole family comes home hydrated, without the evening sugar crash. ⚠️ In the water you feel neither sun nor dehydration: sunscreen every 2h (even waterproof) and regular water exits for kids.

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