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Acute water intoxication as another unusual manifestation of child abuse.
  1. J G Mortimer

    Abstract

    A 4 1/2-year-old boy developed hyponatraemia with coma and convulsions as the result of acute water intoxication. Information subsequently obtained strongly suggested that the excessive water ingestion was enforced by a punitive foster father.

    https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.55.5.401

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