A Life-Saving Technique to Save Millions of Living Beings: Oral Rehydration

Each of us will probably experience diarrhea, However, the progress of medicine has made us no longer have the fear of dying from diarrhea. However, only a few decades ago, the death caused by diarrhea was still a very serious health threat in developing countries. The opportunity to reverse this situation came from the emergence of an unusually simple treatment method-oral rehydration (ORS). However, behind this seemingly simple treatment plan, there are many unknown twists and turns. The beginning of this story begins with a group of young researchers who devoted themselves to finding effective treatments for cholera-like diarrhea more than 50 years ago. Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal disease caused by Vibrio cholerae, Due to the massive loss of Read More …