@article {Trotman:December 2004:0272-4936:295,
	author = "Trotman, H.",
	author = "Lord, C.",
	author = "Barton, M.",
	author = "Antoine, M.",
	title = "Hypernatraemic dehydration in Jamaican breastfed neonates: a 12-year review in a baby-friendly hospital",
	journal = "Annals of Tropical Paediatrics: International Child Health",
	volume = "24",
	year = "December 2004",
	abstract = "A 12-year retrospective review of neonates admitted with hypernatraemic dehydration to the neonatal unit of the University Hospital of the West Indies was conducted between 1 January 1990 and 31 December 2001. Twenty-four infants fulfilled the criteria for hypernatraemic dehydration. Nineteen (79%) women were either nulliparous or primiparous with a mean (SD) age of 26.9 (4.4) yrs. Modal length of hospital stay for mothers was 24 hrs. Twenty (83.3%) infants were exclusively breastfed. Mean (SD) age at presentation was 7.4 (3.8) days. Mean (SD) percentage weight loss between birth and presentation was 18.9% (6.3). Mean (SD) serum sodium at presentation was 164.8 (13.9) mmol/L. Babies visited at home by nurses had a lower mean serum sodium, were less dehydrated and were significantly less acidiotic. Their mean (SD) length of hospital stay was also significantly less [4.2 (1.4) days] than those who were not visited [7.9 (3.8) days] (<I>p</I> &#60; 0.05). Complications occurred in 19 (79%) of infants and included renal failure (19, 79%), seizures (3, 13%) and intraventricular haemorrhage (1, 4%), and one died (4%). Hypernatraemic dehydration is an uncommon complication of failure to establish breastfeeding but is associated with severe morbidity and mortality. Education programmes are needed to increase awareness amongst health-care workers and mothers in order to prevent the problem.",
	pages = "295-300(6)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/atp/2004/00000024/00000004/art00003"
	doi = "doi:10.1179/027249304225019118"
}