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    Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) is a type of fluid replacement used to prevent and treat dehydration, especially due to diarrhea. It involves drinking water...
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  • pioneering the use of oral rehydration therapy to treat diarrhoeal diseases. Mahalanabis had begun researching oral rehydration therapy in 1966 as a research...
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    2019 reported 81% fewer cases among children. The rediscovery of oral rehydration therapy in the 1960s provided a simple way to prevent many of the deaths...
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  • Award, a.k.a. Mahidol Medal winner. Nalin had the key insight that oral rehydration therapy (ORT) would work if the volume of solution patients drank matched...
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    preferred treatment is rehydration through oral rehydration therapy (ORT). In severely undernourished children with diarrhea, rehydration should be done slowly...
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  • in spoken form Oral hygiene, practices involved in cleaning the mouth and preventing disease Oral medication Oral rehydration therapy, a simple treatment...
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    pathologic processes. Fluids can be replaced with oral rehydration therapy (drinking), intravenous therapy, rectally such as with a Murphy drip, or by hypodermoclysis...
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  • produce at least some urine in order to excrete metabolic waste.) Oral rehydration therapy (ORT), is type of fluid replacement used as a treatment for dehydration...
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    DripDrop ORS is used as a part of oral rehydration therapy. Dolhun became interested in oral rehydration therapy while he was in Guatemala during a cholera...
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    generally discouraged. Primary treatment includes rehydration and replacing lost salts (oral rehydration therapy). Antibiotics are recommended for significant...
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    power and athletic performance'. The original Gatorade is based on oral rehydration therapy, a mixture of salt, sugar, and water, with the citrus-based flavoring...
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    diet or the CRAM diet) and plenty of liquids (including oral rehydration therapy, e.g. oral pediatric electrolyte solutions sold at retail). Bland diet...
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    Public health campaigns to combat rotavirus focus on providing oral rehydration therapy for infected children and vaccination to prevent the disease. The...
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    intravenous therapy is usually not preferred. This includes the treatment of mild or moderate dehydration with oral rehydration therapy which is an option...
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    mild or moderate cases, this can typically be achieved by drinking oral rehydration solution (a combination of water, salts and sugar). In those who are...
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    required. In most cases, cholera can be successfully treated with oral rehydration therapy (ORT), which is highly effective, safe, and simple to administer...
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    condition in those at high risk. This includes use together with oral rehydration therapy for children who have diarrhea. General use is not recommended...
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  • neoadjuvant therapy neurologic music therapy Neuro therapy neutron capture therapy of cancer neutron therapy occupational therapy oral rehydration therapy osmotherapy...
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    diarrhoea which persists, intravenous rehydration therapy or antibiotics may be required. A simple oral rehydration therapy (ORS) can be made by dissolving...
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    oral, intravenous, and rectal. When diarrhea occurs, hydration should increase to prevent dehydration. The WHO recommends using the oral rehydration solution...
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    discovery and implementation of oral rehydration therapy for the treatment of diarrhoea and cholera. Oral rehydration therapy is thought to have saved over...
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    campaign, which provides free health check-ups, medicines, and oral rehydration therapy to babies and children living in the flood affected areas. Sesame...
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    colleagues developed and conducted the first clinical trials of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) in adult and pediatric cholera patients and patients with...
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  • replacement, the medical practice of replenishing bodily fluid Oral rehydration therapy, hydration as a health treatment Management of dehydration, medical...
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  • the occurrence of an electrolyte imbalance.[citation needed] In oral rehydration therapy, electrolyte drinks containing sodium and potassium salts replenish...
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    therapy by water: hydrotherapy aquatic therapy rehydration therapy oral rehydration therapy water cure (therapy) by biological materials (biogenic substances...
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    outcomes. Supportive efforts also improve outcomes. These include oral rehydration therapy (drinking slightly sweetened and salty water) or giving intravenous...
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    beneath the skin into the bloodstream of the animal. Intravenous therapy Oral rehydration therapy Phosphate buffered saline (cell culture) Tyrode's solution...
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  • complementary foods to a baby's diet of breast milk or formula. BLW facilitates oral motor development and strongly focuses on the family meal, while maintaining...
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    especially pregnant women and those who are taking oral or patch contraceptives or hormone replacement therapy medications. The symptoms of melasma are dark...
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