[Hypernatremic dehydration and breastfeeding].
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.
Boumahni
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Service de néonatologie et réanimation néonatale et infantile, centre hospitalier Sud-Réunion, BP 350, Saint-Pierre, la Réunion, France. boumahni@wanadoo.fr
Pyaraly
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S
Randrianaly
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H
Robillard
P Y
PY
Renouil
M
M
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