Correction for Cornblath, Pediatrics 39 (4) 582-602.
PEDIATRICS Vol. 40 No. 2 August 1967, pp. 278
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CORRECTION

In the Special Article, "Carbohydrate and Energy Metabolism in the Newborn" (Pediatrics, 39:582, 1967), Dr. John A. Davis is reported (p. 599) to have employed a 40% solution of galactose for the treatment of hypoglycemia. He writes:

"This is not true, and indeed something I would not advocate. What I, in fact, said was that we use a 20% or 40% solution containing 5% galactose and 5% fructose with 10% glucose, (so that) the amount of galactose given is only marginally greater than the baby would get from being fed breast milk. Higher concentrations of fructose appear to produce lacticacidaemia; higher concentrations of glucose, thrombosis; and higher concentrations of galactose might produce a transient galactosaemia, with all the consequences thereof, especially in premature infants. I hope you will be able to print this correction in case readers might be tempted to follow incorrect precepts."