Give an oral rehydration solution such as Pedialyte, if possible.
Water and oral rehydration are essential to the treatment of cholera.
Patients with diarrhoea were given oral rehydration therapy for 24 hours and then returned to their normal feeds.
"You could save a lot of lives with simple vaccinations, with oral rehydration in Africa," he continued.
Others were laid in another section and given oral rehydration.
Using the latest treatment, oral rehydration, Dr. Pape cut the death rate to 1 percent.
Behind the relatively simple physiological basis of oral rehydration therapy lurks a hidden danger.
But treatment is simple: oral rehydration, or in extreme cases, intravenous rehydration and antibiotics.
The others were given only oral rehydration solution.
Earlier today I gave my presentation on diarrhea and oral rehydration.