
	Where results make sense

Topic: Oral rehydration therapy

Related Topics

Sports drink

Diarrhea

Electrolyte

Hygiene

Lactose intolerance

Celiac disease

Coal

Falklands War

Timbro

Excommunication

Fox News

Digestion

Cinema of Japan

Immigration

List of Mughal emperors

In the News (Tue 15 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) - Rehydration Project
		Oral rehydration therapy (ORT), using a simple, inexpensive, glucose and electrolyte solution promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) has reduced the number of deaths from dehydration due to diarrhea by about a million per year.1,3 In spite of its efficacy, ORT has not been used extensively in developed countries.
		Oral rehydration takes advantage of glucose-coupled sodium transport,4 a process for sodium absorption which remains relatively intact in infective diarrheas due to viruses or to enteropathogenic bacteria, whether invasive or enterotoxigenic.
		Oral rehydration and maintenance solutions presently in use, although effective in rehydration, do not decrease stool volume because of the relatively high osmolarity of the glucose which they contain.
	www.diarrhoea.org /ors/ort.htm (2666 words)

	Management of Acute Gastroenteritis in Children - December 1, 1999 - American Academy of Family Physicians
		Oral rehydration therapy using a commercial pediatric oral rehydration solution is the preferred approach to mild or moderate dehydration.
		Oral rehydration therapy is as effective as intravenous therapy in rehydrating and replacing electrolytes in children with mild to moderate dehydration and therefore should be the therapy of first choice.
		Oral rehydration therapy should be the initial treatment because it is as effective as intravenous therapy in rehydrating and replacing electrolytes in children with mild to moderate dehydration.
	www.aafp.org /afp/991201ap/2555.html (3570 words)

	Oral rehydration therapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		ORT was developed in the late 1960s by researchers in India and International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (then East Pakistan), for the treatment of cholera.
		The amount of rehydration that is needed depends on the size of the individual and the degree of dehydration.
		Cholera, diarrhea, and oral rehydration therapy: triumph and indictment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oral_rehydration_therapy (1362 words)

	Oral Rehydration Therapy
		Oral Replacement Therapy (ORT) uses a solution of sodium and glucose to replace water and electrolytes lost during episodes of diarrhea and to prevent diarrheal deaths from dehydration.
		ORT can be used to successfully manage a majority of cases of diarrhea, regardless of the etiologic agent, and the World Health Organization estimates that 90% of diarrheal deaths worldwide could be prevented with appropriate treatment with ORT.
		In 1971, the efficacy of ORT was demonstrated during an epidemic of cholera in a refugee camp in Bangladesh.
	dcc2.bumc.bu.edu /IH887/cddpap97.htm (2331 words)

	Acute Diarrhea in Children: Oral Rehydration, Maint., Nutr. Therapy
		Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) encompasses two phases of treatment: a) the rehydration phase, in which water and electrolytes are given as oral rehydration solution (ORS) to replace existing losses, and b) the maintenance phase, which includes both replacement of ongoing fluid and electrolyte losses and adequate dietary intake (7).
		ORT is not sufficient therapy for some cases of bloody diarrhea (dysentery) since patients with bloody diarrhea may have a bacterial or parasitic infection requiring treatment with an antimicrobial agent.
		Oral rehydration therapy and dietary therapy for acute childhood diarrhea.
	wonder.cdc.gov /wonder/PrevGuid/m0018677/m0018677.asp (9001 words)

	Oral Rehydration Therapy ORT - How Oral Rehydration Therapy - ORT Works - Rehydration Project
		For some years there was controversy over optimum concentration of sodium in oral rehydration fluids, which stemmed from the fact that in the early days of its use, particularly in USA, causes of hypernatraemia (excess sodium) occurred fairly frequently in infants given oral rehydration therapy.
		The apparently obvious answer was to assume that the sodium concentration in the oral rehydration fluid used was too high and to reduce it (even to as low as 25 or 30 meg/l).
		Although ORS with a sodium content of around 50 meq/l is sufficient for maintenance of hydration of a normally will-nourished child with diarrhoea it would be inadequate for rehydration of a patient with a secretary diarrhoea (e.g., cholera) losing considerable sodium in the stool.
	www.rehydrate.org /ors/ort_how_it_works.htm (2000 words)

	Oral or IV Rehydration in Children with Gastroenteritis - June 15, 2003 - American Family Physician
		Children in the oral rehydration group were given a commercially prepared electrolyte solution at the rate of 5 mL every five minutes if they were younger than four years of age, and 10 mL every five minutes if they were four years or older.
		Oral rehydration was considered to have failed if the patient vomited three or more times; in this event, intravenous therapy was administered.
		Compared with the parents of the children who received intravenous hydration, the parents of children who received oral rehydration therapy were significantly more likely to report high satisfaction with all aspects of the emergency department visit.
	www.aafp.org /afp/20030615/tips/12.html (798 words)

	Managing Acute Gastroenteritis Among Children: Oral Rehydration, Maintenance, and Nutritional Therapy
		ORT encompasses two phases of treatment: 1) a rehydration phase, in which water and electrolytes are administered as oral rehydration solution (ORS) to replace existing losses, and 2) a maintenance phase, which includes both replacement of ongoing fluid and electrolyte losses and adequate dietary intake.
		Therapy should include oral rehydration when indicated, although the specifics of the evaluation, and fluid, electrolyte, and nutritional management differ and are beyond the scope of this review.
		Oral rehydration therapy of infantile diarrhea: a controlled study of well-nourished children hospitalized in the United States and Panama.
	www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5216a1.htm (9649 words)

	Oral Rehydration Therapy and Early Refeeding in the Management of Childhood Gastroenteritis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Oral rehydration therapy (ORT), using a simple, inexpensive, glucose and electrolyte solution promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) has reduced the number of deaths from dehydration due to diarrhea by about a million per year.
		Oral rehydration and maintenance solutions presently in use, although effective in rehydration, do not decrease stool volume because of the relatively high osmolality of the glucose which they contain.
		Oral rehydration therapy in acute diarrhoea in childhood.
	www.cps.ca /english/statements/N/n94-03.htm (2219 words)

	Rehydration: Why It is So Important and How It Works To Save Childrens Lives - Rehydration Project
		Rehydration is the replenishment of water and electrolytes lost through dehydration.
		As oral rehydration is less painful, less invasive, less expensive, and easier to provide, it is the treatment of choice for mild dehydration from infectious gastroenteritis.
		One standard remedy is the WHO/UNICEF glucose-based Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) solution, which contains 75 mEq/l of sodium, 75 mmol/l of glucose, 65 mEq/l chloride, 20 mEq/l potassium, and 10 mEq/l citrate, with a total osmolarity of 245 mOsm/l.
	rehydrate.org /rehydration/index.html (950 words)

	ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY IN MODERATELY BURNED CHILDREN
		Twenty cases received oral rehydration solution according to a special protocol and 20 cases were resuscitated by the intravenous route using the Parkland formula as a control group.
		The importance of hypovolaemia as a cause of death and of morbidity in bums is widely understood, and of the adequate replacement of lost water, electrolytes and colloid accounts, to an important degree, for the reduction in mortality from bums.
		The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of the oral rehydration salt "Rehydran-n" in the resuscitation of this group of moderately burned children, considering its excellent success in the treatment of children suffering from diarrhoea.
	www.medbc.com /annals/review/vol_4/num_1/text/vol4n1p29.htm (1665 words)

	Oral Rehydration
		Oral rehydration can be a highly effective, inexpensive, and uncomplicated treatment for most forms of dehydration.
		Oral Rehydration Therapy, while not having the glamour associated with IV drips and complex medical interventions, can prevent many of the complications of dehydration secondary to diarrhoea, vomiting, or other sources of fluid loss.
		The Oral Rehydration Solution is a simple and inexpensive solution, consisting of 8 teaspoons of sugar, half a teaspoon of salt, and a litre of water, that can be used to rapidly rehydrate a patient.
	www.alpharubicon.com /warlord/med/oralrehykp.htm (1857 words)

	Oral Rehydration Therapy - Diarrhea, Diarrhoea - Dialogue on Diarrhoea Online - Prevention, Control, Management and ...
		ORT alone is an effective treatment for 90-95 per cent of patients suffering from acute watery diarrhoea, regardless of cause.
		ORT is safe and can be used to treat anyone suffering from diarrhoea, without having to make a detailed diagnosis before the solution is given.
		In 1981, an oral rehydration therapy unit was opened in the main hospital, run by nursing staff who had been trained by a paediatrician from the University of the West Indies.
	www.diarrhoea.org /dd/su19.htm (3427 words)

	NEJM -- Oral rehydration therapy of infantile diarrhea: a controlled study of well-nourished children hospitalized in ...
		Although oral glucose-electrolyte solutions containing 90 mmol of sodium per liter have been widely used in the treatment of acute diarrhea among under-nourished children in the developing world, they have rarely been studied in well-nourished children.
		Oral rehydration with both solutions according to protocol was successful in 97 of 98 children (one required unscheduled intravenous therapy), and in 87 (89 per cent) no intravenous therapy was required.
		We conclude that glucose-electrolyte oral solutions containing either 50 or 90 mmol of sodium per liter are effective and safe in the treatment of well-nourished children hospitalized with acute diarrhea, and that they may completely replace the intravenous fluids in the majority of such children.
	content.nejm.org /cgi/content/abstract/306/18/1070 (565 words)

	Health Curriculum: Unit 5--Main text: Grades 7-11
		ORS (Oral Rehydration Salts) slows down the passage of water through the body allowing it to be absorbed through the intestine.
		ORT now helps save more than 1 million children's lives each year, indicating substantial progress towards the year 2000 goal of halving the child death rate from diarrhoeal diseases during this decade.
		ORT (and continued feeding), a treatment given at home, could prevent a further 90% of child deaths from diarrhoeal dehydration.
	www.un.org /Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/special/health/units/unit5p4z.htm (174 words)

	NGC - NGC Summary
		Treatment with oral rehydration solution (ORS) is simple and enables management of uncomplicated cases of diarrhea at home, regardless of etiologic agent.
		In the rehydration phase, the fluid deficit is replaced quickly (i.e., during 3–4 hours) and clinical hydration is attained.
		Oral rehydration therapy is critical in managing specific types of diarrheal diseases.
	www.guideline.gov /summary/summary.aspx?ss=15&doc_id=4362&string= (5268 words)

	Pioneer of oral rehydration therapy receives Prince Mahidol Award
		Stanley Schultz was recognized this year in medicine for providing the scientific basis for the use of oral rehydration therapy solution.
		Oral rehydration therapy, also known as oral rehydration solution, is a simple saltwater-glucose solution that helps replenish lost fluids during diarrheal illnesses.
		The therapy was introduced and promulgated in the 1960s and 70s.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-11/hsop-po111306.php (543 words)

	Oral Rehydration Therapy: The Four Simple Technologies
		Oral rehydration therapy is a simple, cheap, effective, and acceptable treatment that can be prepared and administered by parents at home to counteract dehydration which is the most common cause of death among children with acute diarrhoeal disease.
		In contrast to ORT, conventional treatment by intravenous infusions of glucose and salts.
		At the International Conference on Oral Rehydration Therapy (ICORT), sponsored by USAID and held in Washington, D.C., in June 1983, almost complete agreement was reached about the efficacy of ORT, and the need to intensify efforts to make it internationally available.
	almashriq.hiof.no /lebanon/600/610/614/solar-water/unesco/02-03.html (687 words)

	Study supports giving dehydrated children fluids by mouth, oral rehydration therapy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Oral rehydration therapy, or giving fluids by mouth, is equally effective as giving intravenous fluids to young children dehydrated by common stomach and intestinal inflammations, according to a new study by emergency medicine physicians.
		Because oral therapy can be started more quickly and is less painful for the child than IV treatment, the researchers say it should be the preferred treatment for children with moderate dehydration.
		The time required to start therapy was less in the ORT group, at just under 20 minutes compared to 41 minutes in the IVF group.
	www.news-medical.net /?id=7630 (696 words)

	Oral Rehydration Therapy for Diarrhea: An Example of Reverse Transfer of Technology -- Santosham et al. 100 (5): e10 -- ...
		ORT is well established therapy for the treatment and prevention of dehydration due to diarrhea.
		Santosham M, Daum RS, Dillman L, Oral rehydration therapy of infantile diarrhea: a controlled study of well-nourished children hospitalized in the United States and Panama.
		Santosham M, Burns B, Nadkarni V, Oral rehydration therapy for acute diarrhea in ambulatory children in the United States: a double blind comparison of four different solutions.
	pediatrics.aappublications.org /cgi/content/full/100/5/e10 (1959 words)

	Efficacy of glucose-based oral rehydration therapy - Publication - RTI International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This article reviews and synthesizes evidence in the published literature on the safety and efficacy of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) among young children with pediatric gastroenteritis in developed nations.
		The evidence suggests that among pediatric patients with gastroenteritis in developed countries, failure of ORT, defined as the need to rehydrate children intravenously, is infrequent.
		In addition, compared with patients rehydrated intravenously, pediatric patients treated with ORT were not found to be at higher risk of iatrogenic hypernatremia or hyponatremia.
	www.rti.org /abstract.cfm?pubid=1970 (340 words)

	Oral Rehydration Therapy
		WHO estimates that use of ORT saved over 200,000 lives in 1984.
		Use of ORT is so effective that as of January 1988 some 90 countries around the
		cooked and mashed beans or fruit, in addition to the rehydration drink.
	sleekfreak.ath.cx:81 /3wdev/VITAHTML/SUBLEV/EN1/ORALRT.HTM (753 words)

	Tim Worstall: Oral Rehydration Therapy
		ORT is so beneficial that it has been shown that it is usually better to drink ORT with contaminated water, if that is all that is available, than not to drink it all.
		I assume that there is a background level of cholera in most populations at all times; and the level of infection grows (and eventually reaches epidemic levels) as a result of fecal-oral transmission through contaminated water.
		Sep 2, 2005 3:37:19 PM The distribution of cholera is explained in the The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
	timworstall.typepad.com /timworstall/2005/09/oral_rehydratio.html (1375 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)