WATER INTOXICATION IN TWO INFANTS FOLLOWING THE VOLUNTARY INGESTION OF EXCESSIVE FLUIDS
1 Children's Hospital Medical Center, Oakland, California
Two cases of water intoxication which developed in infants following the voluntary ingestion of unusually large amounts of very dilute feedings are described.
Submitted on June 20, 1966Accepted on August 20, 1966
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