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Secondary chloride-losing diarrhoea
Observations on Stool Electrolytes in Infants after Bowel Surgery
Abstract
Among 40 infants with postoperative diarrhoea, 3 were found to have a stool chloride concentration in excess of the sum of sodium and potassium ion concentrations. All 3 had had a recent episode of intestinal obstruction and had developed a sugar intolerance.