Treatments for Dehydration

Treatment list 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.

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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)
• 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
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Hypernatremia: Treatment
(In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms)

• 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
• 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

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