What is oral rehydration therapy?
When extreme diarrhea occurs, it would make sense to give fluids to prevent dehydration of life -threatening. In Western medicine, treatment can use intravenous (IV) drops to achieve this quickly, especially for children. However, access to IV and the necessary fluids in other parts of the world is not the same and severe diarrhea or stomach flu is the main source of death for many young children to whom this approach lacks. For this purpose, doctors and elsewhere approached the age of the old principle of fluids by mouth on mostly electrolytes and reduction of risk, call this oral rehydration or ORT.
The most important part of oral rehydration therapy is that it provides a patient with a reasonable balance of salt and sugar so that the body can maintain some fluids. Without this, the body can easily end with too much accumulation of one or the other. The water itself does not provide these things and can actually further exhaust electrolytes. Too much sugarWe because it can draw water from the body and worsen diarrhea.
One way to deal with the need for balance is the use of packets of solutions oral rehydration therapy. These can be added to the prescribed amount of clean water and served at a speed of about five milliliters or one teaspoon every five minutes until diarrhea stops. It is also possible to produce a solution of ort at home with various liquids such as rice water, broth or breast milk and suitable levels of table salt and sugar. People should avoid using any high sugar fluids such as soda, fruit juice and even sports drinks. In most of the Western world, some of the mixed ORT solutions and pharmacies or doctors can advise which of them to get if people want comfort.
Although conventional wisdom suggests detention of liquids during vomiting, the opposite recommends for oral rehydrataTherapy, especially if vomiting occurs only once or twice. People are recommended by organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) to continue rehydration at the recommended rate. If vomiting fully prevents this, treatment may be necessary by the doctor. Although Ort works most of the time, it does not work at all times.
On the other hand, the efficiency of oral rehydration therapy cannot be underestimated due to its simplicity. In countries where access to doctors is minimal, there are rates at which children, in particular, succumb to conditions including diarrhea, stunning and tragic. ORT teaching and have the means that can be easily served have saved the dramatic number of lives that are estimated to be in millions.