Sentences with phrase «giving oral rehydration»

Referral to a hospital is also indicated if the infant shows no sign of improvement after treatment at home for 24 hours, or if the mother, for any number of reasons, is having difficulties giving oral rehydration therapy.

Physicians should ensure that children with mild to moderate dehydration, and children and adults with acute diarrhea and those with mild to moderate dehydration associated with vomiting or severe diarrhea be given oral rehydration solution if tolerated, progressing to intravenous rehydration if oral rehydration is not tolerated.

Not exact matches

For example, you might give your baby 1 or 2 teaspoons of Pedialyte, LiquiLytes, or other oral rehydration solution (ORS) every 5 or 10 minutes instead of several ounces at once.

Once seen by a doctor, oral rehydration salts (ORS) may be prescribed, but the mother may not be told what ORS is, how to give it, how it will help her child, or that it will not cure the diarrhoea.

Give your baby oral rehydration solution like pedialyte.

The doctor may also recommend that you give your baby an oral rehydration solution to replenish her electrolytes and treat or prevent dehydration.

Medicines, vitamins, and oral rehydration solution may be given but no formula or water

It is still common to find a health worker who will not correctly give ORT to a dehydrated child even when UNICEF oral rehydration salts packages are available.

And of course if you're not in a position where we can replete, give those fluids back either through drinking water or oral rehydration solution ideally or through intravenous fluids, which many people are not due to our limited capacity to provide care in west Africa, the people who can't tolerate that are people who are older or younger or very young.

Most veterinarians would recommend giving your pooch Pedialyte, an oral rehydration salt solution that is typically given to young children who experience mild to moderate diarrhea.