Oral rehydration therapy is ancient. In 1000 BCE, an Indian physician recommended that his patients with diarrhea drink large amounts of water containing dissolved rock salt and molasses. Describe in your own words how oral rehydration solution acts to prevent death from cholera
What will be an ideal response?
Since the major cause of death in cases of cholera is dehydration and loss of electrolytes,
oral rehydration solution will act to replenish the lost electrolytes and water.
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