A girl of 8 years suffering from vomiting and diarrhoea for last 2 days when pinched on the abdomen, skin goes within seconds. she is most likely to be suffering from –a) No dehydrationb) Some dehydrationc) Severe dehydrationd) Skin turgor cannot be commented
No dehydration → Skin goes back immediately.
Some dehydration → There is a slight delay, but the skin has to go back within 2 seconds.
Severe dehydration → The skin goes back after 2 seconds.
From this, we can rule out No dehydration but we cannot differentiate between some dehydration and severe dehydration as the specified time is not given in the question
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