The use of the World Health Organization's oral rehydration solution in patients on home parenteral nutrition.
Patients on home parenteral nutrition who have continuing excess fluid and electrolyte loss from the bowel can have difficulty in managing their fluid and electrolyte state because of the variability of such losses. Recently we have used the World Health Organization's oral rehydration solution to replace such losses in two patients with good effect.
D001639:Bicarbonates / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002648:Child; D005440:Fluid Therapy; D005947:Glucose / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006701:Home Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000628:therapy*; D007418:Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction / Q000628:therapy*; D008286:Malabsorption Syndromes / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D010288:Parenteral Nutrition; D010289:Parenteral Nutrition, Total; D011189:Potassium Chloride / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012778:Short Bowel Syndrome / Q000628:therapy*; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014944:World Health Organization
D001639:Bicarbonates; C044142:World Health Organization oral rehydration solution; D012965:Sodium Chloride; D011189:Potassium Chloride; D005947:Glucose