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Diarrhoeal Diseases Reference 
CD-ROM - First Edition 

Rehydration Project

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Full text clinical and research information about diarrhoea, dehydration and rehydration and includes select journal articles and links to reference resources. 

Challenges For the Year 2001

New News on Diarrhoea, Dehydration and Oral Rehydration

What is diarrhoea and how to prevent it  What is diarrhoea?  Why is diarrhoea dangerous?  How to prevent diarrhoea Good foods during diarrhoea  Diarrhoea cause of 19% of child deaths What every family and community has a right to know about Diarrhoea  Management of diarrhoea  Diarrhoea control - Bangladesh  Diarrhoeal Diseases - Interactive Tutorial, Image Collection and Glossary CD-ROM   Combata la Diarrea:  mantenga higiene en manos, alimentos y ambiente

Why is dehydration dangerous  Symptoms of dehydration  How to treat dehydration  How to prevent dehydration  Dehydration cause of 2.2 million deaths a year  Dehydration Treatment Plans from WHO Supervisory Skills course

Why rehydration is so important and how it works to save children's lives  How Oral Rehydration Therapy [ORT] Works  10 things you should know about rehydrating a child  A solution for survival  The salts of life  The drink that saved my daughters life  Rehydration Challenges: By The Year 2000

Solutions: The most effective and least expensive  Home made    Recipe for home-made salt and sugar solutions    Frequently Asked Questions about solutions made at home  Packaged    How do I make the solution?

ORS ".. the most important medical advance this century."  Lancet  The most effective, least expensive way to manage diarrhoeal dehydration What is diarrhoea and What is ORT?  How ORT works  ORT helps save more than 1 million children's lives each year  How is ORT administered?  What do the experts say about ORT?  Selling Survival  ORT Achievements and Challenges  ORT: A Solution For Survival   25 Years of Saving Lives  ORT Success Stories  The Salts of Life   First Do No Harm: Making Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS) Safer In A Cholera Epidemic

Breastfeed: Breast milk is best  Breastfeeding the first 4-6 months of life  Advantages of breastfeeding  Weaning a critical time for diarrhoea transmission  Breastfeeding News  Health Basics insert: Breastfeeding  Breastfeeding: helping to reduce the severity of diarrhoea  Breastfeeding in emergencies  Breastfeeding prevents infection  Breastfeeding promotion: the right start  Breastfeeding twins  Congratulations to the mothers  Exclusive breastfeeding (letter)  Exclusive breastfeeding  Extra drinks are unnecessary  Help for breastfeeding mothers  How to feed a baby who cannot breastfeed  How to help a woman to re-establish lactation  'I do not have enough milk.'  Passport to life: breastmilk banking in India   Perspectives on human milk banking  Portugal: rediscovering breastfeeding  Promoting breastfeeding in urban communities  Promoting the benefits of breastfeeding  Training health care workers to counsel breastfeeding mothers  WHO study  Women, work and breastfeeding  Zealous promotion of breastfeeding is not the answer (letter)

Resources: Instructive approaches to health and development  Dialogue on Diarrhoea Online  Diarrhoeal Diseases Tutorials / Images CD  Selling Survival  Combata la diarrea  ORT Success Stories  Search our site  Search the web

Facts about diarrhoea, dehydration and rehydration  About Children  About Children at risk  About Child Rights   About Women at Risk  About Water  About Hunger-Myths and Realities  About Environment at Risk  About Security at Risk  About Refugees  Ending Hunger-Now that we can, we must!  Another child will die in the time it takes to read this sentence.  Breastfeeding protects babies  World Summit for Children 1990  Convention on the Rights of the Child  Summary of Convention

Frequently Asked Questions about diarrhoea, dehydration and rehydration  All    What is diarrhoea?    Why is diarrhoea dangerous?    What is dehydration?    How does dehydration occur?    What if symptoms begin to appear?    How long will the effects last?    What is Oral Rehydration Therapy?    How does ORT work?    How do I use an ORS package?    How do I prepare an ORS solution?    Can the solution be made with dirty water?     Can the ORS solution be stored?    Can ORS be used by everyone?    What to do if the child vomits?    Should feeding continue with ORT?    Is it necessary to use drugs?    What can be done to prevent dehydration?    How can I protect myself?    Is home-made and packaged the same?    How do I replace potassium loss?    Other aspects of diarrhoea management

Links related to diarrhoea, dehydration, rehydration and good health    Expanded Links - Pointers to some important Public Health Resources

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