IV Bags May Not Be Necessary to Rehydrate Patients

Re:IV Bags May Not Be Necessary to Rehydrate Patients by raverbashing on Thursday February 22, 2018 @08:15AM (#16437294)

Yes, so save that for the really necessary cases

Even if the person has nausea, they can drink a bit at a time

> Second, she says, is to resist the temptation to drink at a normal rate—let alone chugging the stuff. An ounce at a time every few minutes decreases the odds that the liquid will, um, return from whence it came.

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Re:IV Bags May Not Be Necessary to Rehydrate Patients by athenot on Thursday February 22, 2018 @08:43AM (#16437451)

> Even if the person has nausea, they can drink a bit at a time.

Not necessarily. Sometimes the nausea is so severe that even a teaspoon of water gets sent back the way it came in… a most unpleasant feeling when the body refuses to take anything and ends up vomiting fluids beyond the stomach—e.g. bile.

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Re:IV Bags May Not Be Necessary to Rehydrate Patients by raverbashing on Thursday February 22, 2018 @09:35AM (#16437774)

Yes, my phrase is missing "in some cases"

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