Mineral Excretion during Acute, Dehydrating Diarrhea Treated with Oral Rehydration Therapy
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Oral rehydration therapy and dietary therapy for acute childhood diarrhea.
During the past 1 5 years, oral rehydration therapy has been extensively and increasingly used in developing countries for the treatment of dehydration in acute infantile diarrhea.1 It has been shown that mortality from this disease, which is the leading cause of infant deaths in developing countries, can be reduced dramatically by using oral rehydration 2 Despite this experience, many physicia...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Research
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0031-3998,1530-0447
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-199002000-00017