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Frequently Asked Questions

Can potassium be made good by feeding potassium rich foods like bananas?

Fortunately to some extent yes. However, mothers need to be taught and motivated how to modify a child's normal diet to include these foods for several weeks after an attack of diarrhoea - or more or less permanently in fact in order to have much of an effect.


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