and can be treated with increased oral intake or by drinking oral rehydration therapy solutions. Severe dehydration can be ...

During a cholera outbreak in 1968 in villages east of Dhaka, two young public health specialists began giving desperately ill patients liter after liter of a simple formula: salt and sugar ...

ORS - or oral rehydration solution - came in those tiny packets and worked every single time when there was a need. Unlike other medicines, I actually did not mind ORS at all. It had no unusual ...