Emergency department study supports giving dehydrated children fluids by mouth
...ive as giving intravenous fluids to young children dehydrated by common stomach and intestinal inflammations, ac...ntravenous fluid therapy in rehydrating moderately dehydrated children," said Philip Spandorfer, M.D., a pediatric emergency physician at The Children's Hospital ...Getting the fluid balance right in malaria
...t children with severe malaria may not be as badly dehydrated as was previously thought. "This challenges the view that dehydration is a major contributor to the pathology of this frequently lethal disease," says Nick White (Mahidol University, Thailand), who was not involved in the study. Until now, research e...MDCT 'unwraps' Egyptian mummy, clearly revealing face of 3,000 year old man
...that can provide data such as skull dimensions and dehydrated soft tissue arrangement for 3D reconstructions of the skull and body while preserving the mummy. "MDCT provides thin slices--up to 0.6 mm--in a single-shot acquisition and in a very short time, which permits high-resolution 3D reconstructions," said ...Further studies comparing rehydration therapies would waste resources, say researchers
... intravenous therapy for treating children who are dehydrated after suffering from diarrhoea, write researchers in BMC Medicine this week. Their systematic review of published research concludes that current guidelines recommending oral rehydration therapy as a first course of treatment are correct. The researc...