Does your child suffer from diarrhea and dehydration?.

If you are looking for a simple home remedy to compensate for the loss of fluid, try giving the baby a glass of diluted apple juice.

The results of the new study say that diluted 1: 1 with water apple juice can serve as an excellent means for dehydration for children of any age.

It will at first replace you with electrolyte solutions, including if you were caught by surprise and there are no pharmacies nearby.

A researcher at the University of Calgary in Canada, Dr. Stephen Freedman, confirmed that in children with mild symptoms of gastroenteritis and mild dehydration, diluted apple juice helps to avoid serious complications, reduces the number of hospitalizations and intravenous infusions.

For his research, Dr. Friedman recruited 647 children aged 6 months to 5 years who were admitted to the hospitals of Toronto with gastroenteritis and dehydration. At the initial stage of treatment, they were prescribed to drink either a standard electrolyte solution (like Regidron), or diluted apple juice according to the method of Friedman.

Treatment was ineffective in 25% of children who received a special saline solution, and only 17% of children who drank apple juice. Subsequently, intravenous electrolytes required 9% of children from the first group and only 2.5% of children from the experimental group.

Timely initiation of apple juice reduced the risk of hospitalization, the duration of treatment and the need for intravenous rehydration therapy. Scientists have noticed that children older than 2 years respond better to treatment with juice. Perhaps this is due to the fact that such children are more used to sweets and are treated with great pleasure.

At the same time, treatment with an electrolyte solution (although with flavor additives) was problematic: some children flatly refused to use it, nervous, leading up to the stress of parents and disrupting the intake scheme.

"In developed countries, diluted apple juice could be a more suitable alternative to saline solutions, especially for children with mild gastroenteritis and minimal dehydration," the authors concluded..

It should be noted that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that children should receive pharmacy electrolyte solutions instead of home remedies, based on the results of their own research conducted several years ago. Canadian scientists offer an alternative perspective on the problem.

The results of the study can be found on the pages of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

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