title: Oral rehydration in acute infantile diarrhoea with a glucose-polymer electrolyte solution.
abstract: Seven infants with mild acute diarrhoeal dehydration were rehydrated with an oral sugar-electrolyte solution containing a glucose polymer mixture. Six of them were rehydrated successfully. The high sodium content of the solution (90 mmol/l) was based on the WHO/UNICEF recommended glucose-electrolyte solution and was implicated as the cause of increases in serum sodium in 4 infants, one of whom developed serious hypernatraemia associated with glucose-positive stools. A solution with a lower sodium and glucose-polymer content may be of nutritional benefit in the oral rehydration of acute infantile diarrhoea.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D001835:Body Weight; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000628:therapy; D003968:Diarrhea, Infantile / Q000628:therapy*; D005440:Fluid Therapy / Q000379:methods; D005947:Glucose / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D012964:Sodium / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D012964:Sodium; D005947:Glucose