Carob bean juice: A powerful adjunct to oral rehydration solution treatment in diarrhoea

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 176-181

  Akşit, Sadik ^a,c   Çaǧlayan, Suat ^a   Cukan, Ramazan ^b   Yaprak, Işin ^b  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b SSK Tepecik Teaching Hospital   (Turkey)

^c EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAROBA; ORAL REHYDRATION SOLUTION;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERNATREMIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REHYDRATION; WEIGHT GAIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIDIARRHEALS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; FABACEAE; FEMALE; GALACTANS; HUMANS; HYPERNATREMIA; INFANT; MALE; MANNANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT GUMS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; POLYSACCHARIDES; REHYDRATION SOLUTIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TURKEY; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 0031818891     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3016.1998.00093.x     Document Type: Article

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