Severe hypernatraemia in a very preterm infant.
Hypernatraemia in very low birth weight babies has been well documented and is usually attributable to excessive insensible water loss. We report a case in which, despite a peak serum sodium concentration of 204 mmol/l, the baby survived without morbidity. Treatment was simply to increase the intake of free water in Dextrose.
Maternity Hospital, Liverpool, England, U.K.
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005440:Fluid Therapy; D006801:Humans; D006955:Hypernatremia / Q000628:therapy*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007235:Infant, Premature, Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D014870:Water Loss, Insensible