title: Mothers can prepare and use rice-salt oral rehydration solution in rural Bangladesh.
abstract: A feasibility study of rice-salt solution for oral rehydration (OR) was conducted in a village in the Chandpur area of rural Bangladesh in 1983. 305 mothers of children aged 0-4 years were interviewed with a pretraining questionnaire to find out about the availability of rice. The mothers were then trained and encouraged to use rice-salt OR solution to treat patients with diarrhoea. Evaluation of training was assessed by means of field diarrhoea surveillance, case follow-up, rice-salt OR solution sample analysis, and a post-training survey. The study showed that mothers in rural areas could prepare rice-salt OR solution quite easily and use it to treat diarrhoea patients. Mothers considered that this method would increase the utilisation of OR treatment in rural homes. After training rice-salt OR solution was the most common method of treatment for diarrhoea.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Rahman
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bari
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Molla
authors.forename: W B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Greenough
mesh_terms: D000284:Administration, Oral; D001459:Bangladesh; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003681:Dehydration / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D003968:Diarrhea, Infantile / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D005440:Fluid Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012275:Oryza; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D012996:Solutions
chemical_list: D012996:Solutions; D012965:Sodium Chloride