Nalin recognized that the volume of oral rehydration therapy required isn't the same for every patient.

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Oral rehydration fluids, at 25 cents per treatment, can prevent many of another 1.6 million deaths from severe diarrhea.

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Those who catch the bug are advised to have plenty of non-alcoholic, non-milky drinks and also take oral rehydration solutions.

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Campaigns targeting childhood diarrhoea in the 1970s and 1980s achieved success by scaling up the use of oral rehydration solution (ORS) to prevent dehydration and by educating caregivers.

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Potential investors are also being scared off by cholera, even though it can be easily prevented with good sanitation and clean drinking water (or treated by oral rehydration).

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"The devastating conditions suffered by the Bangladeshi refugees as they fled the war with Pakistan offered ORT (oral rehydration therapy) its definitive test, " according to an August 2003 paper published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.

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Gains need to be maintained and financing for buying and distributing the essential commodities such as pediatric amoxicillin, long-lasting insecticidal mosquito nets (LLINs), anti-malarial treatment, oral-rehydration treatment and zinc, needs to be sustained.

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