Richard Cash, Whose Rehydration Therapy Saved Millions of Lives, Dies at 83
His treatment, developed with David Nalin, was elegant in its simplicity, which made it accessible to people and countries ...
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oral rehydration salts
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 ...
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Lifesaving diarrhea cure for kids is underprescribed, researchers say
Oral rehydration salts (ORS), a solution of glucose and electrolytes that prevents dehydration, is the front-line treatment for diarrhea in kids and is on the WHO List of Essential Medicines.
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Pediatric Acute Gastroenteritis: Clinical Assessment, Oral Rehydration and Antiemetic Therapy
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 ...
Richard Cash, championed ‘simple’ therapy to overcome cholera, dies at 83
including introduction of a glucose-electrolyte solution called Oral Rehydration Salts. But the basic approach remained ...
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Richard A. Cash, Developer of Oral Rehydration Therapy, Dies at 83
Cash, a senior lecturer on global health at Harvard’s School of Public Health, had learned Bengali while developing oral rehydration therapy ... with a sugar and salt solution — was designed ...
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Remembering Dr. Richard Cash: How a 'simple' intervention helped save millions of lives
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 ...