Researched
Oral rehydration therapy
A drink of water, salt and sugar replaces fluid lost in cholera and childhood diarrhoea; its value was proven in Dhaka and Calcutta in the late 1960s.
Open in the interactive tree →Its use in the 1971 refugee camps on the India-Bangladesh border kept cholera deaths low when intravenous fluid ran short. WHO and UNICEF began promoting a standard oral rehydration salts packet in 1975.
Prerequisites
- Epidemiology1854
- Germ theory1861