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oral rehydration solutions

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oral rehydration solutions (ORS)
Etymology: L, oralis, pertaining to the mouth, re + hydor, water, solutus, dissolved
solutions of electrolytes and glucose used in oral rehydration therapy. The recommended electrolytes include NaCl, KCl, and trisodium citrate.


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ILLNESS Dehydration can occur quickly if you have persistent vomiting, diarrhoea or fever and can become life threatening if you don't replace fluids and the salts If you can't keep food down, Dr Shirreffs suggests oral rehydration solutions (available from pharmacies).
They are called oral rehydration solutions (some examples are Pedialyte, Ricelyte and Rehydralyte).
Tests recently conducted by a team of top scientists in the rehydration field at the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, demonstrate that the use of the Products result in significantly superior and faster absorption of both electrolytes and water as compared with the use of other leading oral rehydration solutions in the world, including those based on the World Health Organization's most advanced specifications.
 
 
 
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