title: [Hypernatremic dehydration and breastfeeding].
abstract: Neonatal hypernatremic dehydration due to breast feeding was rarely reported in the French-language literature.
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors report hypernatremic dehydration in a 10-day-old exclusively breast-fed infant. The course was favorable. Insufficient breast milk production has been reported for 30 years.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Early discharge from maternity units is frequent nowadays. Breast-fed newborns without a positive weight gain at discharge should be checked for their weight within the first ten days of life.
authors.affiliation: Service de néonatologie et réanimation néonatale et infantile, centre hospitalier Sud-Réunion, BP 350, Saint-Pierre, la Réunion, France. boumahni@wanadoo.fr
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Boumahni
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pyaraly
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Randrianaly
authors.forename: P Y
authors.initials: PY
authors.lastname: Robillard
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Renouil
mesh_terms: D001942:Breast Feeding; D003681:Dehydration / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D006955:Hypernatremia / Q000209:etiology*; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008895:Milk, Human