Acute water intoxication as another unusual manifestation of child abuse
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1980
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Archives of disease in childhood
Abstract
A 4 1/2-year-old boy developed hyponatraemia with coma and convulsions as the result of acute water intoxication. Information subsequently obtained strongly suggested that the excessive water ingestion was enforced by a punitive foster father.
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child abuse, physical abuse, case report, water intoxication
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Mortimer, J. G. (1980). Acute water intoxication as another unusual manifestation of child abuse. Archives of disease in childhood, 55(5), 401-403.