Oral rehydration salts (ORS), a solution of glucose and electrolytes that prevents dehydration, is the front-line treatment for diarrhea in kids and is on the WHO List of Essential Medicines.

He worked alongside another doctor to show that a simple rehydration therapy could check the ravages of cholera and other ...

including introduction of a glucose-electrolyte solution called Oral Rehydration Salts. But the basic approach remained ...

For these patients, oral rehydration therapy is an intervention that should be initiated with the first signs and symptoms of AGE. Oral rehydration therapy should be based on the degree of ...

So long as people were conscious and could drink oral rehydration salts, they would survive. Working with others at the Cholera Research Laboratory, Cash conducted field studies proving that oral ...

Richard A. Cash died on Oct. 22 at his Cambridge home after an eight-month battle with brain cancer. He was 83.

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Management of the mild-to-moderately dehydrated pediatric patient should emphasize the use of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) based on the degree of clinical dehydration. The clinical dehydration ...

Cash and his colleagues had people drink water with carefully chosen salts and sugar, and found that the formula allowed for successful rehydration. So long as people were conscious and could drink ...