Children often don't like electrolyte solution Stephen Freedman, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Calgary and his co-authors said in Saturday's issue of JAMA. Of the 644 children who completed follow-up, those who had dilute apple juice experienced treatment failure less often (17 per cent) than those in the control group who were given electrolytes (25 per cent), Dr.
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A research nurse called daily until the child was free of symptoms for a day and then again after a week. When the children left emergency, investigators asked the parents to continue giving the diluted apple or preferred fluids or the electrolyte solution, depending on their group. Nearly 650 children aged six months to five years who went to the emergency department at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto with gastroenteritis or intestinal infection were randomly assigned to drink either diluted apple juice or a standard apple-flavoured electrolyte solution as a control.
Parents should feel free to give young children with minimal dehydration apple juice or a favourite beverage instead of an electrolyte solution when they're recovering from vomiting and diarrhea, says a Canadian doctor who put both approaches to a test.
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