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"Drink plenty of fluids": a systematic review of evidence for this recommendation in acute respiratory infections
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     1 Centre for General Practice, Medical School, University of Queensland, Herston, 4006, Queensland, Australia

    Correspondence to: C B Del Mar c.delmar@cgp.uq.edu.au

    Introduction

    We found data to suggest that giving increased fluids to patients with respiratory infections may cause harm. To date there are no randomised controlled trials to provide definitive evidence, and these need to be done. Until we have this evidence, we should be cautious about universally recommending increased fluids to patients, especially those with infections of the lower respiratory tract.

    Extra details about the search strategy used and tables detailing results from other studies appear on bmj.com

    We thank Ruth Foxlee, Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections Group Trials Search Coordinator, for performing the searches.

    Contributors: CBDM conceived and supervised the study, and prepared the manuscript. MPBG and SMM undertook the search, and contributed to writing the manuscript. CBDM is the guarantor for the study.

    Funding: The post of academic research registrar is funded by General Practice Education and Training.

    Competing interests: None declared.

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