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Oral rehydration salts
Essential medicine status
General description

ATC codes
A07CA
Medicine type
Chemical agent
EML status history
First added in 1977 (TRS 615) for Diarrhoea
Wikipedia
Oral rehydration salts
Recommendations
Section
Oral rehydration
  • Powder for dilution in 200 mL, 500 mL, 1 L:
  • - glucose 75 mEq
  • - sodium 75 mEq or mmol/L
  • - chloride 65 mEq or mmol/L
  • - potassium 20 mEq or mmol/L
  • - citrate 10 mmol/L
  • - osmolarity 245 mOsm/L
  • - glucose 13.5 g/L
  • - sodium chloride 2.6 g/L
  • - potassium chloride 1.5 g/L
  • - trisodium citrate dihydrate 2.9 g/L
Indications
Diarrhoea
Section
Solutions correcting water, electrolyte and acid-base disturbances > Oral
  • Powder for dilution in 200 mL, 500 mL, 1 L:
  • - glucose 75 mEq
  • - sodium 75 mEq or mmol/L
  • - chloride 65 mEq or mmol/L
  • - potassium 20 mEq or mmol/L
  • - citrate 10 mmol/L
  • - osmolarity 245 mOsm/L
  • - glucose 13.5 g/L
  • - sodium chloride 2.6 g/L
  • - potassium chloride 1.5 g/L
  • - trisodium citrate dihydrate 2.9 g/L
Indications
Other specified disorders of fluid, electrolyte or acid-base balance