Every year, nearly 500,000 children die from an easily curable condition: diarrhea. There's a simple and effective treatment: mixing oral rehydration salts — which are basically a mix of sugar and ...

Newer polymer-based formulations of oral rehydration solution given to treat diarrhea may offer some benefits over older sugar-salt formulations. But, say researchers who carried out a review of the ...

Medical researchers have announced promising results in a placebo controlled phase I study of an oral, inactivated Escherichia coli diarrhea vaccine. The University of Gothenburg Vaccine Research ...

Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) is an effective, low-cost dehydration treatment that can be given to dehydrated children. Diarrhea and the dehydration it causes can be severe and even fatal, especially ...

October 16, 2009 — Strategies for diagnosing and treating dehydration in children are presented in a review article for the family practitioner published in the October 1 issue of American Family ...

Imodium (loperamide) is a brand-name, over-the-counter (OTC) medication that’s used to treat the symptoms of diarrhea in adults and some children. Imodium comes in several forms that are taken as ...

Medically reviewed by Robert Burakoff, MD Key Takeaways Diarrhea is often caused by infections, including bacterial, viral, or parasitic.Food poisoning can trigger diarrhea if you eat food ...