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What is quantity of oral rehydration fluid to take when treating cholera?
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∙ 9y ago
That is a very good question. You can very easily overload the patient with intravenous fluids. You can not overload the patient with the oral rehydration fluid. Even when you used to give the 'Old ORS' to the children, you could never overload them. The feeding of hyper tonic fluid induce the intense desire for water and the problem is solved after drinking the water. This has been the long standing experience of the contributor, but then the scientific study need to be done by experts on this important issue.
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What is Oral Rehydration Solution?
Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS)-- A liquid preparation developed by the World Health Organization that can decrease fluid loss in persons with diarrhea.
What is rehydration?
Intravenous (IV) rehydration is a treatment for fluid loss in which a sterile water solution containing small amounts of salt or sugar is injected into the patient's bloodstream.
Which body parts does cholera damage?
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What is intravenous rehydration?
Intravenous (IV) rehydration is a treatment for fluid loss in which a sterile water solution containing small amounts of salt or sugar is injected into the patient's bloodstream.
What alternatives exist to intravenous rehydration?
For patients who are able to tolerate fluids by mouth, oral rehydration therapy (ORT) with oral rehydration salts (ORS) in solution is the preferred treatment alternative. Another technique in which fluid replacement is injected subcutaneously.
What causes a person to have cholera?
Water or food is contaminated by cholera bacteria. When you eat the same, they pass to your small intestine. There the bacteria multiply. They attach themselves to the wall of small intestine. They make your small intestine to secrete the fluid in very large quantity. So you get vomiting and loose motion.
What IV fluid would a nurse use for rehydration of patient with HHNK?
D5 1/2 ns
What is an Oral Rehydration Solution?
A liquid preparation developed by the World Health Organization that can decrease fluid loss in persons with diarrhea
What is oral re'hydration therapy?
"Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) is the giving of fluid by mouth to prevent or to treat dehydration caused by diarrhoea." Diarrhoea is normally a result of infection caused by bacteria or viruses. "The most common organisms that caused dehydration and death worldwide are cholera and rotavirus". ORT is a simple and effective treatment to stop this death.
What would be the effect of giving salt solution alone to a patient with cholera?
Cholera is an easily treatable disease. The prompt administration of oral rehydration salts to replace lost fluids nearly always results in cure. In especially severe cases, intravenous administration of fluids may be required to save the patient's life.Left untreated, however, cholera can kill quickly following the onset of symptoms. This can happen at a speed that has incited fear and paralyzed commerce throughout history. Although such reactions are no longer justified, cholera continues to be perceived by many as a deadly and highly contagious threat that can spread through international trade in food. (source World Health organization)
What is the cure for cholera?
You can cure the cholera by heavy infusion of the intravenous fluids. You may have to put two infusion lines with large bore needle or intracath or vasofix. You have to give ringer lactate solution with added potassium chloride in the bottle. Direct potassium chloride will kill the patient in no time. Give the fluid ruthlessly. You may give four liters of fluid in first hour only. You have to keep the heart rate to about 100 per minute and systolic blood pressure at about 100 mm of Hg. The fluid should be warmed to body temperature. Total non-touch technique has to be used to maintain the aseptic transfusion unit. Patient will not complain of thirst due to loss of isotonic fluid. But then his routine need of water is to be satisfied by giving him 10 % dextrose solution two to three litres per day. You can give him one ampule of multivitamin per day in dextrose solution. Once vomiting is controlled, you can give him oral re-hydration solution to save I. V. fluids. With proper and confident treatment the patient will not die. You may have to give up to 30 litres of fluids in say two days, apart from oral re-hydration fluids. You can give him injection oxytetracyline (Teramycin) twice a day for two to three days.
How should dehydration from campylobacteriosis be treated?
Especially at the extremes of age, this should be watched for and treated with either Oral Rehydration Solution or intravenous fluid replacement.
