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Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Dehydration
Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence of the effectiveness of treatments for dehydration.
Reviewed December 2011
6 Resources Found
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| Title: | Oral rehydration salt solutions for treating cholera: lower salt content versus higher salt content solutions |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Cholera is caused by pathogenic bacteria ingested with contaminated food or water and is commonly found where sanitation measures are poor. It causes severe diarrhoea and vomiting, which can lead to profound dehydration and potentially death. Oral rehyd... |
| Date: | Sep 2011 |
| Title: | Medically assisted hydration to assist palliative care patients |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | This review is an updated version of the original Cochrane review published in Issue 2, 2008, there has been no change to the conclusions since the first version was published. It is common for palliative care patients to have reduced fluid intake durin... |
| Date: | Feb 2011 |
| Title: | Restricted versus liberal water intake for preventing morbidity and mortality in preterm infants |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Most babies born before 37 weeks of pregnancy (preterm babies) are not developed enough to take all the water and nutrients they need by mouth. As a result, they are unable to regulate their intake of water. Inadequate water intake can cause the baby to... |
| Date: | Apr 2010 |
| Title: | Drugs that aim to reduce the loss of water from red blood cells in people with sickle cell disease |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Sickle cell disease is an inherited condition that causes red blood cells to become sickle shaped when they lose water. This leads to a high risk of the blood vessels becoming blocked. Such blockages can cause pain, stroke and damage to organs. Recent t... |
| Date: | Sep 2009 |
| Title: | Children with dehydration due to gastroenteritis need to be rehydrated, and this review did not show any important differences between giving fluids orally or intravenously |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Dehydration is when body water content is reduced causing dry skin, headaches, sunken eyes, dizziness, confusion, and sometimes death. Children with dehydration due to gastroenteritis need rehydrating either by liquids given by mouth or a tube through t... |
| Date: | Mar 2006 |
| Title: | Reduced osmolarity oral rehydration solution for treating dehydration caused by acute diarrhoea in children |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Children with diarrhoea lose body water and sometimes become dehydrated. A solution of sugar and salt dissolved in water is widely used to treat dehydration caused by diarrhoea. This reviews shows that a solution of lower osmolarity than the current int... |
| Date: | Nov 2001 |
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