Distinguishing between salt poisoning and hypernatraemic dehydration in children

British Medical Journal

Volumn 326, Issue 7381, 2003, Pages 157-160

  Coulthard, Malcolm G ^a   Haycock, George B ^b  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; BICARBONATE; CREATININE; DOMPERIDONE; GAVISCON; GLUCOSE POLYMER; INFUSION FLUID; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BODY WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; CHLORIDE URINE LEVEL; COLITIS; COLOSTOMY; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; FLUID BALANCE; FOSTER CARE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HYPERNATREMIA; INFANT; INTOXICATION; INTRAVENOUS FEEDING; MALE; NOSE FEEDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALT INTOXICATION; SODIUM URINE LEVEL; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION;

EID: 0037452145     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.157     Document Type: Review

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