Oral Rehydration Therapy in the Second Decade of the Twenty-first Century

Dehydration from diarrhoeal diseases like cholera is still one of the biggest causes of mortality in children under 5 in the world. About half a million children per year (1.6 million total). Oral Rehydration solution is a simple, cheap and effective way t

They use these types of mixtures for a thing called Oral Hydration Therapy. Doctors do this in place of IV saline for extreme dehydration, like with cholera. As usual, always do techniques like this only with the guidance of trained medical pros. https://

@GoranOstrom @inneiennyfas @YlvaHabel Glukos underlättar upptag av natrium, och därmed vätska. Det är sedan gammalt. 👩‍⚕️😉 https://t.co/tO1jo6Z9pn

@sassybibrarian @screamingmd ‘59 influenza… Sitting on the can and also holding a barf bucket. Six of us sick, two bathrooms. 🤮💩 Oral rehydration therapy was not a thing but canned chicken soup worked. https://t.co/gE2GUMYaRT