4. Hold Water/Ice in Your Mouth
A big mistake when we’re very thirsty is often to ‘gulp’ down water as fast as possible in order to try and rehydrate. Doing this will just cause you to fill your stomach. While it will help you to rehydrate, it’s not going to help to wet your mouth.
So instead, try holding water in your mouth for a while. This will naturally make it less dry instantly (for obvious reasons!) but it will also help you to drink it much more slowly and to absorb it much more slowly. This is actually a very good strategy for anyone going on a very long run or walk-in hot weather. It will help you to get more benefit from the water over an extended period.
Better yet, why not try holding a little ice in your water? This will help to hydrate you as the ice will melt and thus provide more hydration. At the same time though, it will also help to cool you down – once again for obvious reasons.