Science news articles about 'oral rehydration salts'

... zinc for between 10 and 14 days, as well as giving oral rehydration salts to reduce the risk of death due to dehydration. The Cochrane Researchers identified 18 trials of zinc ...

... ". The authors found that neither duration of diarrhoea, total stool weight, use of oral rehydration salts nor use of intravenous fluids were affected by supplementation. The authors said, "There ...

Despite evidence that low-cost diarrhea treatments such as lower osmolarity oral rehydration salts (ORS) and zinc supplements could drastically reduce the number of deaths among children, little ...