Major advances in the treatment of infectious diarrhoea
| ORS, oral rehydration solution. |
| Supportive therapy |
| Hypotonic oral rehydration solutions17–19 |
| Resistant starch based ORS20 |
| Antisecretory drugs |
| Racecadotril-enkephalinase inhibitor31–34 |
| Others in development3536 |
| Antimicrobial chemotherapy |
| Nitazoxanide, antiprotozoal agent72 |
| Ultrashort regimens: cholera4445, traveller’s diarrhoea4041 |
| Rifaximin, non-absorbed antibiotic42 |
| Probiotics |
| Rotavirus diarrhoea4748 |
| Antibiotic associated diarrhoea?49 |