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COMPARISON OF RICE WATER, RICE ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION, AND GLUCOSE ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION IN THE MANAGEMENT OF INFANTILE DIARRHOEA
- Source :
- The Lancet. 327:843-845
- Publication Year :
- 1986
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 1986.
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Abstract
- 150 infants aged under 6 months and admitted to hospital with acute gastroenteritis were treated with rice water (RW), rice-based electrolyte solution (RES), and the glucose electrolyte solution (GES) recommended by the World Health Organisation. Two-thirds of the patients were moderately dehydrated and only 8% had positive stool culture. Vomiting, present in 11%, did not interfere with successful oral rehydration. Before treatment serum electrolytes and other biochemical variables were similar in the three groups. After 48 h of treatment the blood urea nitrogen and serum creatinine were lower (p less than 0.05) in the RW and RES group than in the GES group. Serum potassium was also lower in the RW than in the RES group. RW and RES were superior to GES in reducing the frequency and volume of stool output and in producing weight gain.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
Electrolyte
Blood Urea Nitrogen
Electrolytes
chemistry.chemical_compound
Animal science
food
Oral administration
Humans
Medicine
Prospective Studies
Blood urea nitrogen
Food, Formulated
Creatinine
Dehydration
business.industry
Body Weight
Infant, Newborn
Infant
Water
Oryza
General Medicine
Rice water
food.food
Surgery
Diarrhea
Glucose
chemistry
Acute Disease
Diarrhea, Infantile
Potassium
Vomiting
Fluid Therapy
Female
medicine.symptom
business
Weight gain
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01406736
- Volume :
- 327
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Lancet
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c96037a8a7a191ce41e9ce0f733ced2e