Oral rehydration therapy with particular reference to super ORS.
An improved solution of glucose and three salts (ORS) is an elegant and deceptively simple treatment technology to prevent or treat dehydration from diarrhoea. There are many types of formulation tested earlier. First generation improved ORS trials, cereal-based ORS formulations, rice-based ORS trials, glucose-ORS with reduced osmolarity are summarised in the article to have a look of every pros and cons of oral rehydration therapy (ORT). Since the adoption of ORT, estimates of deaths due to diarrhoea in children below 5 years of age have fallen dramatically from 4.6 million in 1980 to 1.8 million in the year 2000.
Society for Applied Studies, Kolkata 700054.
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