What does ORS stand for?

Oral Rehydration Salts

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The other series of activities, during the Week, would include public awareness activities at village and union council level, refresher trainings for health workers, and strengthened public health systems to ensure that Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) and other essential supplies are available and correctly used.

Pakistan can annually save 432,000 children, 20,000 mothers lives

Oral rehydration therapy is the cornerstone of fluid replacement and the new low-osmolarity formula of oral rehydration salts (ORS) is a simple, inexpensive and life-saving remedy that prevents dehydration in children suffering diarrhoea.

Diarrhoea - Why Children are Still Dying and What Can be Done:

Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS), Halazone tablets and bleaching powder solution are being distributed to check an outbreak of diarrhea.

Waterborne diseases rise in West Bengal

Besides oral rehydration salts (ORS) which contain a mixture of sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate or citrate, potassium chloride and glucose can be given for greater efficacy.

Drugs and Medicine for Treatment of Diarrhea

This mixture, prescribed by the World Health Organization and used all over the world, is prepared easily from packets of Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) available from major manufacturers in this country and abroad--yet none of the cholera patients in the airline epidemic received it.

Cholera: the reappearance of a vanished disease

The department has distributed more than 12 million Halazone tablets, 100,000 Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) sachets and 2,000 sacks (25 kg each) of bleaching powder.

Water-borne disease caused by Cyclone Aila, a major threat for West ...

Giving children oral rehydration salts (ORS) can save their lives.

42 million people to receive lifesaving information and services ...

Oral rehydration salts (ORS) solution (World Health Organization formula) is recommended for ORT.

Treatment for Diarrhea in Children