Please send this to all of your contacts in the disaster area. The mixture has saved many lives.

A mixture of water, sugar and salt can help control diarrhea and resulting dehydration. The formula need not be followed exactly. I am giving the amounts in volume because it is easier to measure in difficult situations.

In 500 ml of water

dissolve 7 ml of salt

and 35 ml of sugar.

Kool-aid or other flavors may be added to help the taste.

For an adult drink it all down and follow with another dose in half an hour.

Children should be given smaller amount according to size.

It works because it is absorbed in the stomach rather than in the large intestine as liquid usually is. Because the formula is so simple many people doubt it works until they use it.

Please send this to all of your contacts in the disaster area.  The mixture has saved many lives.

Appreciate your effort, but it wasn't nessesary to private message it to everyone as well.

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