“... attempted cure might kill more people than the disease itself ...” well, with even adult mortality, let alone children, being as high as it is without proper rehydration, that is a strange claim. Medical professionals anyways have a strange fetish with measuring doses. Ever noticed how “exact” a pill is composed? 25 mg of this, 100 mg of that - as if it might not be more likely that 23,6 or 99.3 mg might be much more “exact”? And then the same pill is given to two different sexes, the weight per cohort member ranging from, say, 70 to 300 pounds and aged 18 to 93 ... If you give too much sugar or salt, then the increased thirst will force more intake of unblended water and that would settle it in most cases.
Thank you for an excellent piece of work - there have been so many failures where incoming aid workers fail by mis judging the ground. Many can learn from what you have found.
COMMENTS
BY Oona Houlihan
ON November 27, 2014 08:55 AM
“... attempted cure might kill more people than the disease itself ...” well, with even adult mortality, let alone children, being as high as it is without proper rehydration, that is a strange claim. Medical professionals anyways have a strange fetish with measuring doses. Ever noticed how “exact” a pill is composed? 25 mg of this, 100 mg of that - as if it might not be more likely that 23,6 or 99.3 mg might be much more “exact”? And then the same pill is given to two different sexes, the weight per cohort member ranging from, say, 70 to 300 pounds and aged 18 to 93 ... If you give too much sugar or salt, then the increased thirst will force more intake of unblended water and that would settle it in most cases.
BY Valerie Herr
ON December 3, 2014 08:26 PM
Thank you for an excellent piece of work - there have been so many failures where incoming aid workers fail by mis judging the ground. Many can learn from what you have found.