Failure to thrive and metabolic alkalosis. Adverse effects of a chloride-deficient formula in two infants
- 14 March 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 243 (10) , 1068-1070
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.243.10.1068
Abstract
This report concerns 2 infants with failure to thrive and hypochloremic metabolic alkalosis. Both infants were fed exclusively with a soybean-based formula, which, as a result of a manufacturing error, was severely deficient in Cl-. When an alternative formula containing an adequate amount of Cl- was prescribed, the electrolyte abnormality was corrected, and the infants resumed their normal weight gain.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: