TY - JOUR AU - Hernawan Hernawan AU - Sunoto Sunoto AU - Titut Pusponegoro AU - Suharjono Suharjono PY - 2017/06/13 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Treatment of Acute Infantile Gastroenteritis Dehydration Acidosis with Ringer's Lactate and Glucose-Electrolyte Solution JF - Paediatrica Indonesiana JA - PI VL - 18 IS - 3-4 SE - Articles DO - 10.14238/pi18.3-4.1978.83-90 UR - https://www.paediatricaindonesiana.org/index.php/paediatrica-indonesiana/article/view/1465 AB - Fifty patients hospitalized with severe gastroenteritis - dehydration with acidosis were investigated. The age average was 8 months with the range of 1-18 months. The amount of the Ringer's lactate solution given was as follows:1st hour : 30 ml/kg b.w.the following 7 hours: 70 ml/kg b.w. or 10 ml/kg b.w./hour.After 8 hours on parenteral treatment, the child was given oral solution, either glucose-electrolyte solution or milk formula in ¼ dilution. The mortality rate was 6% (3 out of 50 patients) i.e. one due to seizures suspected encephalitis, one due to potasium deficiency (K = 2.1 mEq/l) and the third due to dehydration itself because the child was admitted already in a moribund stage (subvinum vitae). ER -