Fluid replacement

It has been suggested that Management of dehydration be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since April 2024.

Fluid replacement
A person with cholera drinking oral rehydration solution (ORS)
Other names	Fluid resuscitation
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Fluid replacement or fluid resuscitation is the medical practice of replenishing bodily fluid lost through sweating, bleeding, fluid shifts or other pathologic processes. Fluids can be replaced with oral rehydration therapy (drinking), intravenous therapy, rectally such as with a Murphy drip, or by hypodermoclysis, the direct injection of fluid into the subcutaneous tissue. Fluids administered by the oral and hypodermic routes are absorbed more slowly than those given intravenously.