Citation

Carlson J, Fernlund P, Ivarsson SA, Jakobsson I, Neiderud J, Nilsson KO, Svensson M, Swanstein U. Acta Paediatr. 1994; 83(1): 119-121.

Affiliation

Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Lund, Malmö General Hospital, Sweden.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8193462

Abstract

A six-year-old boy with severe intermittent diarrhoea was subjected to extensive diagnostic investigation and treatment before the administration of a laxative (sodium sulphate) by his mother was discovered. Early suspicion and analysis of faecal fluid for electrolytes and known laxative substances would have prevented the hazardous clinical course of this case.

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