RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Oral solutions for gastroenteritis--optimal glucose concentration.
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 313
OP 315
DO 10.1136/adc.57.4.313
VO 57
IS 4
A1 B Kjellman
A1 E Ronge
YR 1982
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/57/4/313.abstract
AB About half of all infants and toddlers with infectious diarrhoea of probable virus aetiology and treated with an oral rehydration solution containing 4.6% glucose had faecal glucose greater than or equal to 0.3%. In most of them the faecal concentration of glucose was higher than 0.50%. From the physiological point of view, it seems wise to decrease the glucose concentration substantially from that so often recommended for the treatment of diarrhoea in developed countries.