A ZINC‐DEFICIENCY DERMATITIS IN PATIENTS ON TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION
- 1 September 1978
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in International Journal of Dermatology
- Vol. 17 (7), 575-581
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-4362.1978.tb06003.x
Abstract
Three patients on home total parenteral nutrition utilizing a synthetic amino acid solutions developed a dermatitis consistent with acrodermatitis enteropathica after 30, 43 and 62 days of therapy. The dermatitis resolved after changing to casein hydrolysate in 2 patients and after full oral alimentation in the third. Although measured serum zinc levels were repeatedly normal to elevated in all patients, sufficient retrospective data analysis combined with literature review on this subject, clearly implicates zinc deficiency as the etiology for their dermatitis. Adequate zinc supplementation of synthetic amino acid solutions is essential in order to avoid this complication.Keywords
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