title: [Stress hyperglycemia in a child with severe acute gastroenteritis].
abstract: A case of a two years and ten months old girl with severe acute gastroenteritis, dehydration, and hyperglycaemia is described. Transient hyperglycaemia is a common clinical finding in children under stress. We discuss the distinction between hyperglycaemia as a prediabetic state and that as a physiological response to stress during acute illness.
authors.affiliation: Randers Centralsygehus, paediatrisk afdeling B.
authors.forename: Jesper Vandborg
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Bjerre
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D006943:Hyperglycemia / Q000209:etiology*; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000150:complications*
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose