AAP News Vol. 10 No. 10 October 1994, p. 3
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Rice-based rehydration therapy

LAURIE LARSON

Rice-based, oral-rehydration therapy (ORT) solutions for infants with severe diarrhea are, in some respects, more effective than conventional rehydration with glucose oral-rehydration salts (ORS), according to a recent study reported in Archives of Diseases in Childhood.

In a study of 52 infants, younger than 6 months, with moderate to severe diarrhea, rice-based ORT was more effective in reducing diarrheal stool volume in the first 24 and 48 hours of therapy than treatment with glucose ORS. Infants consumed less of the rice-based solution and showed no digestive problems. Duration of diarrhea was the same for both treatment groups.