Cot Deaths and Malnutrition: The Role of Dehydration
- 1 January 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Medicine, Science and the Law
- Vol. 15 (1), 47-50
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002580247501500110
Abstract
In a series of 54 cases of sudden death in infancy, the cerebrospinal fluid urea was raised in 52 cases. It is proposed that dehydration is a significant factor in most of these cases of sudden unexpected deaths in infancy. The suggested biochemical mechanism is a rapid development of acute-on-chronic dehydration when infection supervenes.Keywords
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- COMMITTEE ON NUTRITIONPediatrics, 1957