Oral Rehydration Therapy for Diarrheal Diseases

In this Viewpoint, Roger I. Glass traces the discovery of the oral rehydration solution during a cholera epidemic in Bangladesh in the 1960s to treat severe diarrhea by promoting electrolyte balance and attributes oral rehydration therapy with saving hundreds of thousands of lives in the last 50 years.
Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research