IV fluids may reduce severity of kidney failure in kids with E. coli infection
Friday, July 22, 2011 - 22:30
in Health & Medicine
Infection with E. coli bacteria can wreak havoc in children, leading to bloody diarrhea, fever and kidney failure. But giving children intravenous fluids early in the course of an E. coli O157:H7 infection appears to lower the odds of developing severe kidney failure, according to new research.