Patients on home parenteral nutrition who have continuing excess fluid and electrolyte loss from the bowel can have difficulty in managing their fluid and electrolyte state because of the variability of such losses. Recently we have used the World Health Organization's oral rehydration solution to replace such losses in two patients with good effect. (Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition 8:720-721, 1984)
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