Hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state is a life-threatening emergency manifested by marked elevation of blood glucose and hyperosmolarity with little or no ketosis. Although there are multiple precipitating causes, underlying infections are the most common. Other causes include certain medications, nonadherence to therapy, undiagnosed diabetes mellitus, substance abuse, and coexisting disease. In ch...

The objective was to determine the exact moisture percentage for formation of pellets from banana peel, residues candies, and bromatological analysis final product. For peel banana, 10 different dehydration times were performed: zero; two; four; six; eight; ten; twelve; fourteen; sixteen eighteen hours dehydration, with four replicates each treatment. pellet 18.84% moisture. product presented i...

? serve as a guide and should be varied to suit the special needs of infants, as each case ^quires separate consideration. The child should be under frequent observation as its Condition may undergo rapid alteration in a snort time. Skilled nursing is an important Part of treatment. General.?No purgative is usually required as diarrhoea has been sufficiently severe to 0,nPty the intestinal trac...

OBJECTIVE We previously created a clinical dehydration scale. Our objective was to validate the clinical dehydration scale with a new cohort of patients with acute gastroenteritis who were assessed in a tertiary emergency department in a developed country. METHODS A prospective observational study was performed in an emergency department at a large pediatric tertiary center in Canada. Childre...

Received: 15/11/2013 Revised: 13/12/2013 Accepted: 16/12/2013 Abstract Osmotic dehydration is a process of water removal by immersion of water containing cellular solids in a concentrated aqueous solution of sugar/ salt. This results in intermediate moisture product with lower water activity. At low water activity, most of the chemical reactions which deteriorate the food as well as the growth ...

BACKGROUND Hypertriglyceridemia in association with hypernatremia was reported in a few children; however, studies exploring this association are limited. OBJECTIVE To determine the pattern of change in serum triglycerides levels in hypernatremia patients. DESIGN AND SETTING A prospective case-control study done at North West Armed Forces Hospital, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia from April 2008 to Mar...

OBJECTIVE To develop an evidence and consensus based guideline for the management of the child who presents to hospital with diarrhoea (with or without vomiting), a common problem representing 16% of all paediatric medical attenders at an accident and emergency department. Clinical assessment, investigations (biochemistry and stool culture in particular), admission, and treatment are addressed....

p thalassemia (p thal) in DBA/2J mice is a consequence of the spontaneous and complete deletion of the p major globin gene. Homozygous p thal mice have clinical and biological features similar t o those observed in human p thal intermedia. Erythrocytes in human p thal are characterized by a relative cell dehydration and reduced K+ content. The role of this erythrocyte dehydration in the reduced...