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.
Can the risk of persistent diarrhoea be reduced by appropriate feeding and the use of cereal - based
oral rehydration solutions, rather than
standard ORS, during acute diarrhoea?