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

Our bodily stocks of sodium and potassium salts had become exhausted by sweat and all that extra water requiring trips to the toilet, so while we weren’t dehydrated in liquid terms we had ...

In the late 1960s, he went to Dhaka to work on cholera. There he became involved in the development of oral rehydration ...

Oral rehydration salts are a scientifically balanced formula of electrolytes, glucose and minerals that are designed to aid the optimum absorption of water. Fasting is one of the pillars of Islam.

An oral rehydration solution of sugar, salt and water, promoted by Dr. Cash and others, helped save more than 50 million lives since the 1970s.

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 ...

For these patients, oral rehydration therapy is an intervention that should be initiated with the first signs and symptoms of AGE. Oral rehydration therapy should be based on the degree of ...

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 ...

Tamil Nadu government declares heatwaves a State-specific disaster, offering ex-gratia payments and relief measures for ...

Nadipalli village and six in Erukonda village in the mandalCollector along with medical and health and other officials visit ...