Randomized double blinded clinical trial comparing amino acid based oral rehydration solution/medical food and glucose-based oral rehydration solution is infectious diarrhea in pediatric population

Inclusion criteria:

1. Age: 6 months - 36 months,
2. Duration of diarrhea ≤48 hours,
3. Some dehydration (judged clinically according to the "Dhaka method"),
4. Written informed consent by either parent/guardian.

Exclusion criteria:

1. Severe malnutrition (Weight-for-length WLZ/WHZ/WAZ <-3 or presence of nutritional edema)
2. Patients with diarrhea due to cholera.
3. Systemic illness (e.g. Pneumonia, tuberculosis, enteric fever, meningitis etc.)
4. Bloody diarrhea
5. Any congenital anomaly or disorder (e.g. diagnosed inborn error of metabolism, congenital cardiac disease, seizure disorders, hypothyroidism, Down's syndrome etc.)
6. Requirement of additional intravenous fluids after being provided with an IV for 4 hours on admission if severely dehydrated
7. Has documentation of taking antibiotic and/or antidiarrheal within the last 48 hours prior to hospitalization.

Measuring stool output on a diaper on female children will create a bias since it will be mixed with urine.