Dehydration is a major concern for nursing homes, as it can often snowball into much more serious issues, such as delirium, falls, constipation and urinary tract infections. But the field lacks a ...

The Northumbria Assessment of Hydration is a simple protocol for assessing the risk of dehydration in older people and ensuring they drink enough. Older people admitted to hospital are particularly ...

A simple new method for assessing dehydration from diarrhea, which kills hundreds of thousands of children each year worldwide, has proven accurate and reliable, report investigators. To properly ...

Dehydration from diarrhea, either from viral infection or cholera, accounts for 10 percent of all child deaths worldwide. Though it's a pervasive problem, there are no clinical guidelines that perform ...

Wendy L. Woolley and John H. Burton, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albany Medical College, 43 New Scotland Avenue, MC 139 Albany, NY 12208, USA. E-Mail: Wendy L. Woolley - woollew@mail.amc.edu; ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] --Dehydration from diarrhea, either from viral infection or cholera, accounts for 10 percent of all child deaths worldwide. Though it's a pervasive problem, there ...

“If you’re not producing enough saliva, you can get bacterial overgrowth in the mouth, and one of the side effects of that is bad breath,” says John Higgins, MD, a professor of medicine at UT Health ...

Evaluating and testing hydration status is increasingly requested by rehabilitation, sport, military and performance-related activities. Besides commonly used biochemical hydration assessment markers ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] --To properly treat young children with severe diarrhea, caregivers in clinics long on patients and short on resources need a quick and accurate way to assess the ...