Oral rehydration therapy

Most Likely Diagnosis The first most likely diagnosis would be acute gastroenteritis. According to Aftab and Churgay (2012), the patient has acute gastroenteritis is “often defined as the onset of diarrhea in the absence of chronic disease, with or without abdominal pain, fever, nausea, or vomiting”. This 18-month year old patient has had 6 episodes of diarrhea and 4 episodes of vomiting per day that occurred for two days. The patient also has no history of having a chronic disease. Confirm Diagnosis

Introduction Gatorade is a PepsiCo owned company that manufactures many sports-themed beverages as well as food products. The Gatorade beverages are based on the oral rehydration therapy, which involves drinking sugar and salt mixed water for the purpose of rehydrating. The Gatorade brand uses carbohydrates and electrolytes to replenish athletes after rigorous physical activity (Gatorade, 2014). Gatorade sweetens their drinks using a mixture of sucrose-dextrose, which reduces the calorie count of

Symptoms of vomiting, abdominal pain, headaches, weakness, and diarrhea can occur within one hour and last less than 24 hours. Diagnosis is through stool culture and treatment is supportive therapy. The most well-known Salmonella infection is Salmonella typhi, which is transmitted through contaminated food and water. Typhoid fever is divided into 4 stages. In the first stage, symptoms of malaise, headache and cough develop. In the second

Gastroenteritis is a disease that contributes to morbidity and mortality in large numbers worldwide, and is a major cause of hospitalization. Every year 10.5 million children die of Gastroenteritis before reaching the age of five (Ciccarelli, Stolfi, & Caramia, 2013). Gastroenteritis can be caused due to many different agents, such as different bacteria, viruses and parasites. However, the primary cause of gastroenteritis in children is due to Rotavirus (Parashar, Nelson, & Kang, 2013), accounting

¬ What is Early Child Development? ¬ ¬ Early childhood is the most rapid period of development in a human life. Although individual children develop at their own pace, all children progress through an identifiable sequence of physical, cognitive, and emotional growth and change. The Early Child Development (ECD) approach is based on the proven fact that young children respond best when caregivers use specific techniques designed to encourage and stimulate progress to the next level of

Diarrhoea Diarrhoea is a killer disease is young children. One in four deaths in children under the age of 5 is estimated to be due to diarrhoea. It is the passage of loose, liquid or watery stool. In many regions, diarrhoea is defined as passage of three or more loose or watery stool, in 1980 in the developing countries, an estimated 5 million children under 5 years of age-about 10 every minute-died as a consequence of diarrhoea! disease. These deaths were an outcome of the some 1000 million episodes

Assessment E.L. is a 36 year old female who has presented with a chief complaint of vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramping and sharp adnominal pain rated 7/10. The patient is a geriatric nurse and states that she was in close contact with patients who had similar symptoms. The patient denies taking any medication, denies allergies, reports childhood illnesses gastrointestinal amoebas, and is up to date with vaccinations. Family history indicates that the patient is at increased risk for developing

Cholera Cholera has re-emerged as a major infectious disease in the recent past with a global increase in its incidence. In 1994, cholera cases were notified from 94 countries-the highest ever number of countries in one year (WHO, 1995). Two disturbing aspects of global cholera picture in 1990s have been-dramatic and unexpected reappearance of epidemic cholera caused by V.cholerae 01 E1T or in Latin America after 100 years absence from the region and unexpected appearance in 1992 in South India of

According to Canavan & Arant, 2009, The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends oral rehydration therapy (ORT) as the preferred treatment of fluid and electrolyte losses caused by diarrhea in children with mild to moderate dehydration. With ORT, the same fluid can be used for rehydration, maintenance, and replacement of stool losses; and ORT can be initiated more quickly than intravenous fluid therapy. For mild dehydration, 50 mL per kg of ORT solution should be administered over four hours

With this information we provided teaching using the teaching plan attached in appendix A. The teaching plan can be summarized in three main points: 1) Parents need to understand the importance of rehydrating with an oral rehydration solution (ORS) instead of water alone. 2) Child should be given approximately 6 ounces of ORS for each loose stool or vomiting episode. This ORS should be administered in teaspoons at a slow steady rate if the child is refusing to drink normally