Dehydration From Norovirus And A Unique Method Of Treatment

With this year’s nasty outbreak of Norovirus many facilities are treating the resulting dehydration with a unique rehydrating technique called Hypodermoclysis.

What the heck is Hypodermoclysis?

This strange sounding technique is actually a simple, easy, cost effective method of rehydrating with subcutaneous fluids. Hypodermoclysis is often referred to as “clysis” and once nurses are familiar with the techniques it is often used to treat dehydration in the elderly. Nurses know that starting an IV in the dehydrated elderly population is often a difficult if not impossible task. With clysis an insertion of a catheter subcutaneously is all that is required and is the rehydration technique used in many facilities across the country to prevent a hospital admission for an IV placement and hydration.