Treatment and management 👩🏾⚕️
- People with acute watery diarrhoea need to be referred to a health facility:
- Children younger than six months of age regardless of their dehydration status.
- Children younger than five years of age and pregnant woman with some (mild) signs of dehydration and all people with severe dehydration.
- Refer pregnant women, children and adults exhibiting signs of malnutrition to cholera treatment centres.
- Manage cases with no or mild dehydration and no malnutrition in the community by providing oral rehydration. With clear messaging on how to care for the patient while following safe sanitation practices
- Manage mild cases in the community by providing zinc supplementation (only children below the age of five years should receive zinc).
- Support safe and dignified funeral and burial practices with proper counselling for the family.
- Provide psychosocial support to the sick person and their family members.