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Diarrhoea and Gastroenteritis: Dehydration Classification and Plan-Based Management

A clinical deck on the integrated approach to diarrhoea and vomiting: recognising hypovolaemic shock from dehydration, then classifying severe, some and no dehydration from signs such as sunken eyes, skin pinch return, weak pulse and restlessness. Management follows with Ringer's lactate boluses, nasogastric or oral rehydration solution at the stated volumes and times, continued breastfeeding, zinc for every case, and antimicrobials only for dysentery, proven amoebiasis or giardiasis.

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