Slide 13
How to give oral fluids
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This mother is giving her child oral rehydration fluid
from his feeding both. She feeds him milk from the
bottle, so he is already used to drinking from it.
Q. Do you think this is a good way to give oral fluids?
A. No, this is hot a good way for a child to drink -
either milk or oral rehydration fluids. Bottles are
difficult to keep clean, and dirty bottles can cause
repeated attacks of diarrhoea. Probably this bottle
caused this child's diarrhoea in the first place.
Also, it is difficult to control the speed at which a
child drinks from a bottle. Try to find another way
to give the baby his fluids. Only use a bottle if all
other methods fail, and if the baby refuses to take
the fluid any other way.
