Hyperosmolar dehydration in infancy due to faulty feeding.
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[A case of hypernatremic dehydration due to breast-feeding].
The authors report an 11-day-old exclusively breast-fed female, with a birth weight of 3 300 g, who had suffered from dehydration stage I, with acute renal failure and metabolic acidosis, with 170 mmol/L of serum sodium. Renal ultrasounds were normal but the rate of sodium in mother's milk was three times higher than controls (87 versus 21 mmol/L). Intravenous rehydration allowed the correction...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1972
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.47.253.468