Sentences with phrase «of oral rehydration salts»

One of the most popular brands of oral rehydration salts solution is Pedialyte.

Dr William Cutting replies: ORS usually refers to the standard WHO / UNICEF formula of oral rehydration salts.

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60 We have not completed recent evidence reviews for artemisinin - combination therapy (ACT) for malaria (older review of the program here), antibiotics to treat pneumonia or oral rehydration salts to treat diarrhea, but we believe that there is relatively strong evidence to support these programs.

In what an English medical journal, the Lancet, has called one of the most important scientific findings in the past 20 to 30 years, the addition of glucose to the standard oral rehydration fluid of salt and water greatly increases the body's ability to absorb needed water.

For adults, lost fluids and electrolytes can be replaced with virtually any beverage plus a source of sodium chloride (salted crackers, etc.), or you can use an oral rehydration formula.

Oral rehydration salts (ORS) and nutritional improvements probably have a greater impact on mortality rates than the incidence of diarrhea.

An oral rehydration solution (ORS) is a mixture of water, salts and sugar in specific amounts.

Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) is the process of replacing essential body fluids and salts that a child loses in critical quantities during attacks of diarrhoea.

ORS (oral rehydration salts) is a special combination of dry salts that is mixed with safe water.

Oral rehydration solutions (ORS) are the best clear drinks for babies (of any age) and children with gastro because they have the right amounts of sugar, salt and water to be easily absorbed in the gut.

The best treatment for diarrhoea is to (1) drink lots of liquids and oral rehydration salts (ORS), properly mixed with clean water from a safe source, and (2) take zinc tablets or syrup for 10 — 14 days.

There are also packets of powdered oral rehydration salts that you can mix with your pooch's water.