Every year, nearly 500,000 children die from an easily curable condition: diarrhea. There's a simple and effective treatment: mixing oral rehydration salts — which are basically a mix of sugar and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . No significant differences in mortality were observed at 96 hours between patients who received oral or IV ...

Dehydration is a common concern in children during episodes of diarrhoea, vomiting or fever. While the WHO-recommended Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS) powder remains the safest and most effective ...

Most of the tiny patients confined to the children’s ward at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (ICDDR) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, are weak, malnourished and dehydrated. They’ve ...