Home-Based oral rehydration therapy in rural Zimbabwe

ABSTRACT

A study was carried out in four rural areas of Zimbabwe to assess the acceptabilty; feasibility and accuracy of sugar - salt solutions and to investigate the action taken during a recalled episode of diarrhoea in a child. Only 5 per cent of respondents gave the child a sugar-salt solution at home during the described illness yet a majority (52 per cent) claimed knowledge of oral rehydration techniques