Then, administer water, and oral rehydration salt, slowly, and move the victim to a cooler area.
Outside, tent people were lined up for 100 yards, waiting to get fresh water with a package of rehydration salts.
These illnesses can be prevented by a $1.50 vaccine, $1 in antibiotics or 10 cents worth of oral rehydration salts.
Mexican officials have even considered issuing survival kits to migrants that would include rehydration salts and food.
A packet of oral rehydration salts contains nothing more than a mixture of sugar and salt.
For instance, after extensive consultation with the community, health workers found a way of overcoming people's reluctance to use rehydration salts.
Taking a sachet of rehydration salts dissolved in a glass of water may help.
During his stay, they provided him with rehydration salts and meals.
Her baby had diarrhoea and she was given rehydration salts.
Vaccines and oral rehydration salts are indeed relatively inexpensive compared with their lifesaving value.