TY - JOUR
T1 - Oral rehydration therapy
T2 - An epithelial transport success story
AU - Greenough, W. B.
PY - 1989
Y1 - 1989
N2 - Oral rehydration therapy prevents death in acute watery diarrhoea except in the most severe 1-3% of cholera cases. If started at the onset of illness, weakness, orthostasis, muscle cramps, lethargy, and other symptoms of a contracted circulating blood volume are entirely prevented. Poor countries have rapidly expanded their use of this practical and inexpensive treatment while it has been largely neglected in wealthy nations in favour of the more hazardous and costly luxury of hospitalisation and intravenous therapy. Improved solutions are now emerging that not only rehydrate patients, but also reduce severity and shorten illness.
AB - Oral rehydration therapy prevents death in acute watery diarrhoea except in the most severe 1-3% of cholera cases. If started at the onset of illness, weakness, orthostasis, muscle cramps, lethargy, and other symptoms of a contracted circulating blood volume are entirely prevented. Poor countries have rapidly expanded their use of this practical and inexpensive treatment while it has been largely neglected in wealthy nations in favour of the more hazardous and costly luxury of hospitalisation and intravenous therapy. Improved solutions are now emerging that not only rehydrate patients, but also reduce severity and shorten illness.
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U2 - 10.1136/adc.64.3.419
DO - 10.1136/adc.64.3.419
M3 - Article
C2 - 2650641
AN - SCOPUS:0024518622
VL - 64
SP - 419
EP - 422
JO - Sexually Transmitted Infections
JF - Sexually Transmitted Infections
SN - 1368-4973
IS - 3
ER -