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[Stress hyperglycemia in a child with severe acute gastroenteritis]
1Randers Centralsygehus, paediatrisk afdeling B.
Ugeskrift for Laeger
|January 14, 2003
Abstract:
A case of a two years and ten months old girl with severe acute gastroenteritis, dehydration, and hyperglycaemia is described. Transient hyperglycaemia is a common clinical finding in children under stress. We discuss the distinction between hyperglycaemia as a prediabetic state and that as a physiological response to stress during acute illness.