Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) is an effective, low-cost dehydration treatment that can be given to dehydrated children. Diarrhea and the dehydration it causes can be severe and even fatal, especially ...

The child should be given oral rehydration fluids in the doctor's office, with food and rehydration fluid continued at home. For moderate or severe dehydration, the child should be treated in a health ...

When your child is throwing up (vomiting), it's easy for them to become dehydrated. The risk is even greater when fever causes them to sweat more, or they are also losing fluid through diarrhea.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] --To properly treat young children with severe diarrhea, caregivers in clinics long on patients and short on resources need a quick and accurate way to assess the ...

Your body is a temple for water. In fact, most of your body is comprised of water. Percentages vary, but newborns have the most water at 78 percent of total body mass, dropping to 65 percent by age ...

Before your kids hit the soccer or football field, it's important they have a plan to hydrate. "So, the night before you want to have your kid drink a bottle of water and even the morning before you ...

Objective To compare hyperthermia and physiological dehydration risk during exercise heat stress between children of different ages and adults and evaluate an existing adult sweat rate calculator in ...

The object of study was to present children with severe dehydration caused by acute diarrhoea, due to the acute diarrhoea treated in Intensive Care Unit of the Paediatric Clinic. The examinees were ...

STORY: Parents in India's most populous Uttar Pradesh state were seen sitting inside the hospital premises waiting to get their children checked by pediatricians. "Children with health conditions like ...