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Not to be confused with Drip Drop.
DripDrop ORS
Company typePrivate
FoundedSan Francisco, California
FounderEduardo Dolhun
Headquarters
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ProductsOral rehydration therapy powder[1]
Websitedripdrop.com

DripDrop is an oral rehydration solution oral rehydration therapy (ORT) manufacturer based in San Francisco, California.[2][3][4] Eduardo Dolhun founded the company in 2008 and began manufacturing in 2010.[3]

History

Dr. Eduardo Dolhun became interested in oral rehydration therapy while he was in Guatemala during a Cholera outbreak in 1993.[2][3] Dr. Dolhun founded DripDrop in 2008 and began raising money from friends and family.[2][3] At the time Dolhun began testing oral rehydration therapy mixtures of sugars and salts on his patients at his private practice, Dolhun Clinic, in San Francisco, California.[2][3] Dolhun's goal was to manufacture an oral rehydration therapy more cost-effective than intravenous hydration treatments and that tastes better than existing oral solutions.[2] In 2010, he settled on a formula and began manufacturing.[2][3] DripDrop partnered with Doctors Outreach Clinic to provide its ORT solution to those affected by the 2010 Pakistan floods.[5]

In August 2013, DripDrop raised $3 million in a funding round backed by Sam Nazarian, founder and CEO of SBE Entertainment Group,[6] John Elway and Ronnie Lott.[3] DripDrop won the bronze in the "treatments" category of the Edison Awards in 2014. H-E-B, a supermarket chain based in San Antonio, Texas, began selling DripDrop's oral rehydration solution (ORS) in July 2014.[7] The product is also sold in Walgreens and 15,000 other stores.[8][9][10] Sammy Hagar, Bob Weir, Joe Satriani and Brook and Seth Taube led a $5.6 million funding round in August 2014.[11][12][13][14][15] The company has raised more than $11 million from friends and family.[8]

Philanthropy

Proceeds from sales of DripDrop support the company's philanthropic efforts.[15]

DripDrop was used to treat Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia by ChildFund International.

In March 2017, Dr. Eduardo Dolhun treated children near Cape Town, South Africa with DripDrop in the aftermath of the Imizamo Yethu fire.[16][17]

Description

DripDrop is designed to promote rehydration and electrolyte replacement in ill children, based on the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Nutrition requirements to help prevent dehydration in infants and children.

DripDrop is lower in sugar than most sports drinks, containing 140 calories per Liter.

DripDrop is similar to rehydration fluids used by the World Health Organization (WHO) that are used to treat illnesses such as cholera and rotavirus.

References

  1. ^ Malerie Yolen-Cohen (22 November 2014). "DripDrop Medical Grade Hydration". Newsday. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Patrick Clark (2013-08-22). "Will America's Hospitals Adopt a Dehydration Fix From the Developing World?". Retrieved 2014-09-07.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Patrick Clark (2013-08-30). "Investors bet on oral rehydrator Drip Drop". Retrieved 2014-09-07.
  4. ^ "Members Highlight". Retrieved 2014-09-07.
  5. ^ "Doctors Outreach Clinics". Retrieved 2014-09-07.
  6. ^ Stanley Green. "Sam Nazarian Takes A Shot Of Drip Drop". Retrieved 2014-09-07.
  7. ^ Raven Romero (2014-07-22). "DripDrop now available at H-E-B".
  8. ^ a b Ayana Byrd (19 September 2014). "You May Be Thirstier Than You Think". Fast Company. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  9. ^ Michael Johnsen (2014-08-19). "DripDrop expands distribution". Retrieved 2014-09-07.
  10. ^ "OTC Product News". Pharmacy Times. August 10, 2015. Retrieved October 31, 2015.
  11. ^ Peter Farquhar (2014-08-15). "This Mundane Product Has Somehow Attracted The Coolest Venture Capitalists Ever, Including Sammy Hagar". Retrieved 2014-09-07.
  12. ^ Kia Kokalitcheva (2014-08-14). "DripDrop's rehydration powder gets $5.6M from Sammy Hagar, the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir". Retrieved 2014-09-07.
  13. ^ "Desire2Learn closes $85m financing round – Investment Round Up". 2014-08-14. Retrieved 2014-09-07.
  14. ^ William Alden (2014-08-14). "Hydration Powder Attracts Grateful Dead's Bob Weir as Investor". Retrieved 2014-09-07.
  15. ^ a b Timothy Hay (2014-08-14). "DripDrop Gets Rock Star Backing for Its Rehydration Product".
  16. ^ John Harvey (17 March 2017). "Doc helps destitute". IOL. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  17. ^ Mmakgomo Tshetlo (20 March 2017). "Drip Drop oral re-hydrate powder helps victims of Imizamo Yethu fire". Cape Talk. Retrieved 23 March 2017.

Further reading

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