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Title: Hypernatremic dehydration in breastfed infants
Other Titles: Anne sütüyle beslenen yenidoganlarda hipernatremik dehidratasyon
Authors: Ergin, Hacer
Şahin, Özlem
Deniz, Melis
Özdemir, Özmert Muhammet Ali
Küçüktaşçı, Kazım
Hatipoglu, Celile
Keywords: Dehydration
Hypernatremia
Newborn
sodium
article
birth weight
breast feeding
breast feeding education
female
gestational age
hospitalization
human
hypernatremia
hypernatremia dehydration
infant feeding
newborn
weight reduction
Abstract: Introduction: Since it can cause life-threatening complications in newborns, diagnosis and treatment of hypernatremic dehydration associated with inadequate breastfeeding is important. Materials and Methods: Records of exclusively-breastfed newborns (37-42 weeks) with hypernatremic dehydration (serum Na ? 150mEq/L) admitted between 2006 and 2012 were reviewed retrospectively. Results: The mean gestational age, birth weight, weight loss, maternal age, and age at diagnosis of 26 newborns with hypernatremic dehydration were 38.8±1.1 weeks, 3292±458 gr, 13.5±5.5%, 27.6±4.9 years, and 3.9±3.5 days, respectively. The percentages of female patients, caesarean delivery, and primipar mothers were 57.6%, 61.6%, and 57.6% respectively. Admission complaints were fever (30.7%), poor feeding and jaundice (26.9%), restlessness and hypoactivity (7.6%). Hypernatremic dehydration frequency within first five days, in summer season, during hospitalization were 84.6%, 73%, and 42.3%, respectively. The mean serum BUN, creatinine, Na levels were found 45.6±64.1 mg/dl, 1.5±2.3 mg/dl, and 157±11.9 mEq/L, respectively. Of 26 mothers, 57.6% had received breastfeeding education and 84% had inadequate fluid intake. Among four patients with seizures, three had prerenal failure, one had renal failure requiring dialysis, and brain edema developed in one. Serum Na levels were higher in infants who were baby of primipar mother (p=0.002), born in another hospital (p=0.012), from young mothers (p=0.035), from mothers with no breastfeeding education (p=0.007), and with delayed hospital admission (p<0.01). Serum Na concentrations ?160mEq/L were associated with complications (p<0.01). Serum Na levels were negatively correlated with maternal age (p=0.035) and positively correlated with (p=0.016) weight loss. Conclusions: Hypernatremic dehydration can be prevented in newborns by close monitoring of weight loss and by teaching successful breastfeeding techniques and signs of dehydration to the mothers within first week. © The Journal of Current Pediatrics, published by Galenos Publishing.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/11499/7921
https://doi.org/10.4274/Jcp.11.46855
ISSN: 1304-9054
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