His treatment, developed with David Nalin, was elegant in its simplicity, which made it accessible to people and countries ...

Management of the mild-to-moderately dehydrated pediatric patient should emphasize the use of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) based on the degree of clinical dehydration. The clinical dehydration ...

It was a snack to the future moment for litter pickers at a nature reserve when they unearthed a well-seasoned crisp packet. While the contents of the crumpled Walkers ready salted bag were no ...

ORS - or oral rehydration solution - came in those tiny packets and worked every single ... the "recipe" - a fistful of sugar, a pinch of salt and half liter of water - made the recipe scalable ...

Though the most common means of replenishing electrolytes is simply through drinking water and staying hydrated, this isn’t always enough to maintain a proper balance of mineral salts in the body.

including introduction of a glucose-electrolyte solution called Oral Rehydration Salts. But the basic approach remained unchanged: fast replacement of the critical fluids lost by patients battling ...

In the late 1960s, he went to Dhaka to work on cholera. There he became involved in the development of oral rehydration therapy — hailed as one of the most significant medical advances of the century.

So long as people were conscious and could drink oral rehydration salts, they would survive. Working with others at the Cholera Research Laboratory, Cash conducted field studies proving that oral ...

Cash and his colleagues had people drink water with carefully chosen salts and sugar, and found that the formula allowed for successful rehydration. So long as people were conscious and could drink ...