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Treatments for Dehydration
The list of treatments mentioned in various sources for Dehydration includes the following list. Always seek professional medical advice about any treatment or change in treatment plans.
- Hospitalization - Newborns and infants need special care; dehydration can be severe or even fatal
- Water - but not enough alone, need electrolytes as well.
- Fluids - broth or soups (for salt/sodium), fruit juices, soft fruits, vegetables (for potassium)
- Intravenous fluids - in severe cases
- Breast milk
- Baby formula
- Infant rehydration solutions - special medications containing the required electrolytes
- Pedialyte
- Ceralyte
- Infalyte
- Avoid milk products
- Avoid greasy foods
- Avoid high-fiber foods
- Avoid sweet foods
- Bland foods - during recovery, can move onto bananas, plain rice, boiled potatoes, toast, crackers, cooked carrots, skinless fat-removed baked chicken.
- BRAT diet - for children during recovery: bananas, rice, applesauce, toast.
Latest treatments for Dehydration:
The following are some of the latest treatments for Dehydration:
- Oral fluids
- IV fluids
Hospital statistics for Dehydration:
These medical statistics relate to hospitals, hospitalization and Dehydration:
- 0.07% (8,833) of hospital consultant episodes were for volume depletion in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 73% of hospital consultant episodes for volume depletion required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 37% of hospital consultant episodes for volume depletion were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 63% of hospital consultant episodes for volume depletion were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- more hospital information...»
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Hypernatremia:
Treatment
(In a Page: Signs and Symptoms)
- Patients with severe dehydration and hypotension should be treated emergently with IV fluids (lactated Ringer's or NSS)
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Calculate free water deficit:
0.6 ×weight (kg) ×[(Na+measured/140) – 1]
–Correct free water deficit over 48–72 hours; give patient maintenance fluids and replacements for ongoing losses
–Reduce serum Na+by no more than 10–15 mEq/L/day (0.5 mEq/L/hour) in chronic hypernatremia and 1 mEq/L/hr in acute hypernatremia- Too-rapid correction of serum Na+can precipitate seizures or cerebral edema with ensuing herniation
- Isovolemic hypernatremia: Replace fluid with D5W (replace half of fluid deficit in the first 24 hours)
- Hypovolemic hypernatremia: Replace fluid with NSS
- Hypervolemic hypernatremia: Administer D5W and loop diuretics both to decrease hypertonicity by increasing Na+excretion and to add free H2O while removing volume
Source: In a Page: Signs and Symptoms, 2004
Hypernatremia:
Treatment
(In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms)
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If dehydration is present
–Fluid resuscitation with normal saline (20 cc/kg bolus)
–Water deficit =0.6 ×weight ×(1 – 140/[Na+])
–Administer hypotonic IV solutions to correct sodium and rehydrate over 48 hours - Too rapid correction can result in water shift into brain cells (due to the presence of “idiogenic” osmoles produced in response to the hypernatremia) resulting in cerebral edema
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Central DI
–Treat with exogenous vasopressin (DDAVP)
- Nephrogenic DI
–Treat with infusions of hypotonic saline or D5W (depending on the clinical situation and hydration status)
–Allow free access to water
Source: In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms, 2007
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