Today's true sports drinks are still the classic Gatorade -- packed with the electrolytes potassium, magnesium, calcium, and sodium to provide energy during intense workouts -- as well as competitors such as Cytomax, Allsport, and Accelerade.
Certain medications can also cause Charley horse as a result of their side effects. Drugs such as statins or medicines prescribed for lowering cholesterol, blood pressure, diuretics, asthma medicines like terbutaline and salbutamol, morphine and lithium can trigger muscle spasms.
Risk factors for charley horses. Muscle spasms can happen to anyone, at any age. And a charley horse can occur at any time of the day or night. Charley horses do tend to occur more often among people in the following groups: athletes. infants. older adults. people who are obese. people taking certain medications like diuretics, Evista, or statin drugs.