Ketotic hypoglycaemia of childhood

Diagnosis of ketotic hypoglycaemia of childhood.

Habbick, B. F., McNeish, A. S., and Stephenson, J. B. P. (1971). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 46, 295. Diagnosis of ketotic hypoglycaemia of childhood. Twenty cases of ketotic hypoglycaemia have been diagnosed in one medical unit in the past 8 years. Typically the children were 'dysmature' at birth, with a history suggesting hypoglycaemia in the first 36 hours of life, and they have remain...

Effect of ephedrine in ketotic hypoglycaemia.

Effect of ephedrine in ketotic hypoglycaemia. The effect of oral ephedrine administration on a child with ketotic hypoglycaemia who had not responded to dietary measures alone was studied. After ephedrine administration, the hypoglycaemia developing after ketogenic stress was less profound and was substantially delayed. The impaired glycaemic response to glucagon during hypoglycaemia, character...

Ketotic (idiopathic glucagon unresponsive) hypoglycaemia: diazoxide effects.

Hypoglycaemia in childhood.

HYPOGLYCAEMIA in children may cause listlessness, inattention, pallor, stupor, convulsions and coma, which may be accompanied by tachycardia and sweating. Such non-specific symptoms as cyanotic attacks, reluctance to feed, irritability, convulsions, jittery limb movements and depression of the Moro reflex may occur in the hypoglycaemic newborn infant. A major part of these clinical patterns ari...

Hypoglycaemia in infancy and childhood.

levels in accident and emergency departments. In our own group-though at present the junior medical staffing is relatively satisfactory for the two major departments which provide a continuous casualty service-there have been occasions over the past nine months when the service has been maintained only by the employment of locum tenens, clinical assistants, or by the payment of extra duty allow...