Acute water intoxication as another unusual manifestation of child abuse

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A 4 1/2 yr old boy developed hyponatremia 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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Mortimer, J. G. (1980). Acute water intoxication as another unusual manifestation of child abuse. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 55(5), 401–403. https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.55.5.401

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