Hydrolec Sachets Blackcurrant 10x5.3g

Oral rehydration solution is the most life-saving medicine ever put in a sachet. Its precise ratio of glucose and salts exploits the gut's sodium-glucose co-transporter, which keeps absorbing fluid even during severe diarrhoea, replacing water and electrolytes at close to intravenous effectiveness. The WHO's low-osmolarity formula, refined through decades of trials, is credited with tens of millions of lives, and The Lancet called it the most important medical advance of the twentieth century. Every diarrhoea sale, every vomiting child, every day of heavy fluid loss should have one of these beside it. Hydrolec blackcurrant completes the flavour trio of the budget ORS that belongs beside every diarrhoea sale in the shop.

Diarrhoea does not kill through germs; it kills through dehydration, and it does so fastest in children. This sachet is the treatment, not the accessory: everything else on the diarrhoea shelf is optional beside it. Keeping sachets at home before anyone is ill is the whole strategy: dehydration moves faster than a pharmacy trip, especially in children.