Randomised controlled trial comparing oral and intravenous rehydration therapy in children with diarrhoea.
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Oral rehydration of malnourished children with diarrhoea
Diarrhoea complicates over half of admissions to hospital with Background severe acute malnutrition (SAM). World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for the management of dehydration recommend the use of oral rehydration with ReSoMal (an oral rehydration solution (ORS) for SAM), which has lower sodium (45mmols/l) and higher potassium (40mmols/l) content than old WHO ORS. The composition of ReS...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.303.6799.393