Secondary chloride-losing diarrhoea: Observations on Stool Electrolytes in Infants after Bowel Surgery

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1 August 1971

journal article
research article
Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood

Vol. 46 (248) , 479-482
https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.46.248.479

Abstract

Among 40 infants with postoperative diarrhoea, 3 were found to have a stool chloride concentration in excess of the sum of sodium and potassium ion concentrations. All 3 had had a recent episode of intestinal obstruction and had developed a sugar intolerance.

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