Hypertonic Dehydration

High calorie-osmolar feeding and hypertonic dehydration.

Taitz, L. S., and Byers, H. D. (1972). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 47, 257. High calorie/osmolar feeding and hypertonic dehydration. Analysis of the sodium content of milk taken from bottles brought by mothers to feed their babies while waiting in the postnatal clinic indicates that the tendency to use excessive amounts of milk powder in feeds is widespread. The effects of high solute/cal...

Voluntary and therapeutic causes of water intoxication and hypertonic dehydration: perinatal risks in mother and offspring

Owing to the attitude that a high intake of fluid enhances beauty, young women may drink far more water than they need. This behaviour may have serious consequences for the mother and her offspring during delivery because of a risk of severe hyponatraemia. In contrast, hypernatraemic dehydration in the newborn infant may be considered when exclusively breast-fed infants postnatally lose 10% or ...

ROC Hypertonic Saline Trial Title: Hypertonic Resuscitation following Traumatic Injury

ROC Hypertonic Saline Trial Title: Hypertonic Resuscitation following Traumatic Injury

Hypertonic saline and stroke.

Cytotoxic brain edema—swelling of nerve and glial cells—is among the very early pathophysiologic sequelae of focal cerebral ischemia. Once cell swelling has exhausted the cerebral compliance, intracranial pressure increases and, thereby, causes secondary ischemia. Hypertonic solutions, mannitol in particular, have long been used to reduce intracranial pressure. More recently, hypertonic saline ...