A child from a cholera-endemic area presents with profuse watery diarrhoea. The WHO defines severe dehydration as loss of what proportion of body weig...

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A child from a cholera-endemic area presents with profuse watery diarrhoea. The WHO defines severe dehydration as loss of what proportion of body weight?

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>10% body weight loss

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>3% body weight loss

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>5% body weight loss

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>15% body weight loss

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>20% body weight loss

uk-dtmh MCQ (SBA): Severe Dehydration Definition

A child from a cholera-endemic area presents with profuse watery diarrhoea. The WHO defines severe dehydration as loss of what proportion of body weight?