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Why should cholera patients resume eating as soon as they can?

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A woman in a pink dress receives medical treatment from nurses administering an IV at a crowded hospital in Saint-Marc, Haiti. — cholera A woman with cholera being treated by nurses at St. Nicholas Hospital in Saint-Marc, Haiti, 2010.

Cholera patients are encouraged to resume eating as soon as they are able to do so in order to avoid malnutrition or to prevent any existing malnutrition from worsening during the course of the illness.1