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 ...

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

Oral rehydration solutions made a crucial contribution to reducing the death rate, at 36.2% (1). Rehydration therapy of dehydrated infants and toddlers, using hypotonic oral rehydration solution ...

He worked alongside another doctor to show that a simple rehydration therapy could check the ravages of cholera and other diarrhea-inducing diseases. By Clay Risen Richard A. Cash, who as a young ...

The recovery and survival rates were unprecedented and the treatment, known as Oral Rehydration Therapy, became the medical standard — credited by the World Health Organization and other groups ...

Cash, a senior lecturer on global health at Harvard’s School of Public Health, had learned Bengali while developing oral rehydration therapy, a treatment for cholera that has saved millions of ...

If you are dehydrated due to an illness that includes vomiting and/or diarrhea, consider using oral rehydration therapy (ORT) ...

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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 ...

from brain cancer this week, his wife by his side. He was 83. His greatest achievement — oral rehydration therapy for diarrhea — is something so simple that people can be trained to do it at home.

Richard Cash, co-developer of the Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT), passed away on October 22 in Boston at the age of 83, leaving behind a remarkable legacy of service and innovation that ...