Social science & medicine
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Social science & medicine · Aug 1994
An analysis of home-based oral rehydration therapy in the Kingdom of Lesotho.
Mothers in developing countries are being successfully taught to give an oral rehydration solution (ORS) at home. The quantity of oral rehydration fluid that mothers administer to their child remains a critical question. Inadequate quantities render oral rehydration therapy (ORT) ineffective. ⋯ The average dose was 65 ml/kg. Younger children got about the same volume as older children; thus, they received a higher ml/kg dose. Mothers gave more ORS to children who had more symptoms of diarrhoeal disease at the time they were brought to the clinic.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)