Sentences with phrase «oral rehydration fluids»

We advise the mothers of children suffering from diarrhoea to make their own oral rehydration fluids and to add to this fluid three tablespoons of cooked soya flour.

In cholera, zinc is used with the oral rehydration fluids to help reduce the amount of fluids needed.

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.

If you don't have Pedialyte on hand, and you'd rather stay home and comfort your child, some parents prefer to make their own homemade rehydration solution with this recipe for oral rehydration fluid that used as an alternative in the «Rehydration Project.»

Renate Schempp, Co-ordinator, Soya Nutrition Project, PO Box 90612, Luanshya, Zambia Dr William Cutting replies: If adding soya makes the oral rehydration fluid more acceptable then that is good.

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For diarrhea, oral rehydration has replaced the use of intravenous fluids.

Babycentre also recommends that you use oral rehydration solutions or an isotonic sports drinks to replace lost fluids, salts, sugars and minerals.

An oral rehydration electrolyte solution is usually the best choice, and you can offer your child 1 to 3 teaspoons of fluid every 5 to 10 minutes.

A good rule of thumb is to try to get your child to drink small amounts of fluid (preferably an oral rehydration solution over soda) often.

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.

An oral rehydration solution is the best clear fluid if your child will take it.

Oral rehydration solution (ORS) can help balance the salt, water, and sugar levels in your body and replace the lost fluids during diarrhea.

Supplementation can occur by using amniocentesis to inject fluids, amnio - infusion with an intrauterine catheter during labor, or rehydration of the mother with intravenous and oral fluids.

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.

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.

The ideal glucose concentration used in Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT - for patients with cholera or other diseases affecting the GI system whose lives depend on absorbing water and electrolytes, but who may not have access to an IV)- about 7 grams of carbohydrates per 8 ounces of fluid.