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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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  • 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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    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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    generally discouraged. Primary treatment includes rehydration and replacing lost salts (oral rehydration therapy). Antibiotics are recommended for significant...
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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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    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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