New Strategies for Treating Watery Diarrhea

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"Sipping once Sipping twice Sipping chicken soup with rice."1 More than 10 years have passed since an oral glucose-electrolyte solution was first tested as a substitute for intravenous fluid in patients with cholera.2 , 3 It is a measure of its success that this therapy is now being used in many areas of the world and in patients of all ages to treat not only cholera but other forms of acute watery diarrhea. In this issue of the Journal the paper by Palmer et al. provides an opportunity to discuss this mode of therapy — its physiologic basis, advantages and disadvantages, and . . .