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

He worked alongside another doctor to show that a simple rehydration therapy could check the ravages of cholera and other ...

including introduction of a glucose-electrolyte solution called Oral Rehydration Salts. But the basic approach remained ...

Potassium chloride (KCI) is a form of salt that doctors prescribe to treat ... extended-release capsule, injectable, oral solution, and powder for oral solution. Before you start or stop taking ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...