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Hypernatraemia in the first few days: a tragic case
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Laing and Wong1 highlight the fact that hypernatraemic dehydration can be difficult to recognise and may have serious consequences. We describe an extreme case.
An 8 day old infant was admitted to hospital with a small haematemesis. She had lost 19% of her birth weight and her plasma sodium was 173 …