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Life-threatening hypernatraemic dehydration in breastfed babies
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    Risk factors for excess weight loss and hypernatraemia in exclusively breast-fed infants
    • Musa Kazým Çaðlar, Associated Professor in Paediatrics
    • Other Contributors:
      • Iþýl Özer, Fatma Þ. Altugan

    Dear Editor,

    We have read with great interest the article by Shroff R. and et al (1) which appeared on May 2006 issue. Weight loss up to an acceptable degree (<10%) is a physiological event unless a negative imbalance occurs between weight loss and milk production. We have recently shared our expriences related to risk factors for excess weight loss and hypernatraemia in exclusively breast-fed infants (2)....

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    None declared.
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    Postnatal Weight Monitoring Should Be Routine

    Dear Editor,

    The case reports of Shroff et al document a serious clinical problem with potentially devastating consequences. The tragedy of this situation is that the affected infants are all perfectly healthy and, if we only look for it, the condition is preventable. Local experience of precisely such a case led to the introduction of routine post-natal weight monitoring of infants during the first two weeks o...

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    Preventing hypernatraemic dehydration in babies- Time for action.

    Dear Editor,

    It was interesting to read the case report by Shroff et al (1) on hypernatraemic dehydration in breast fed babies. Recently published retrospective study from the USA (2) also showed that breast feeding associated hypernatraemia is under diagnosed and its incidence is rising. It is not clear why the incidence of breast feeding associated hypernatraemia is rising, but early discharge from hospital(3) or...

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