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Treatment for Dehydration

 Give extra fluids

 Give drinks with electrolytes such as ORS

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How to prepare ORS at home

 Ingredients: Six (6) level teaspoons of Sugar. Half (1/2) level

teaspoon of Salt. One Litre of clean drinking or boiled water

and then cooled - 5 cupfuls (each cup about 200 ml.)

 Wash hands with clean water and soap

 Measure a litre of boiled but cooled water in a container

 Measure one leveled tea spoon of salt and water eight lev-
eled teaspoons of sugar in the water

 Mix the salt and sugar into the water to make a solution

 Taste the solution, it should never taste salty

 Give the drink to the person with diarrhea or dehydration

When making ORS;

1. Water works as the solvent

2. Salt and sugar work as solutes

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Prevention and control of cholera

1. Maintain good food hygiene

2. Drink clean boiled water
3. Take the infected person to the hospital as soon as possible

4. Use latrines to dispose faeces

5. Cover all food to avoid houseflies

6. Wash hands before eating food and after using the latrine

7. Reheat all cold foods

8. Do not dump rubbish into drainage systems