Salt Poisoning

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THE recent Binghamton disaster, as summarized by Finberg et al.,¶ illustrated the toxic potential of "salt" in infancy. There, the inadvertent substitution of salt for sugar in the preparation of the newborn-nursery formula resulted in a "hyper-electrolyte formula" — and subsequently hypernatremic infants; 6 died. Other isolated reports of salt poisoning consequent to faulty formula preparation have been reported.We have recently seen a set of fourteen-month-old twins with salt poisoning who acquired their illness more directly. They simply ate salt!Case ReportAt 1:50 p.m. on April 19, 1963, 14-month-old twin Negro girls were admitted to the Columbus Children's . . .

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