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ORS sipped continuously, continued feeding, strict hand hygiene - home care holds mild cholera; dehydration signs mean hospital.
In cholera, home remedies have one supreme form - the homemade rehydration drink - and one supreme limit: dehydration signs mean hospital. Everything else is detail around those two facts.
Sunken eyes, poor skin pinch, extreme thirst, very little urine, weakness, drowsiness, cold hands - any one of these with profuse watery diarrhea means the hospital has already waited long enough. ORS in hand, go.
ORS sachets (or the measured sugar-salt liter) sipped continuously, continued feeding, strict hand hygiene - home care holds mild cholera; any dehydration sign sends it to hospital.
Written By
Dr. Daksh
BDS
Reviewed By
Dr. Varun Gupta
MD Pharmacology, MBBS
Last updated on
27 Sep 2022 • 06:23 PM (IST)
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Cholera is swallowed with contaminated water or food - floods, mixed pipelines and poor hand hygiene open the door.
ORS continuously, light salty-starchy food kept going, protein-potassium rebuild after - in cholera the kitchen is half the treatment.
Classical atisara care - rice gruels, rest, staged re-feeding - supports mild illness; dehydration belongs to ORS and hospitals.
Shock, salt crashes, kidney failure, child hypoglycemia - all downstream of untreated fluid loss, all preventable.
ORS from the first stool, facility care at dehydration signs, IV fluids and antibiotics for the severe - fluids, escalated fast.
