Stress hyperglycemia in a child with severe acute gastroenteritis

Bjerre, J.V.

Ugeskrift for Laeger 164(47): 5524-5525

2002


ISSN/ISBN: 0041-5782
PMID: 12523031
Document Number: 544639
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.

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