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Table 2 Patient’s clinical course and laboratory investigations

From: Extreme hypernatremic dehydration due to potential sodium intoxication: consequences and management for an infant with diarrhea at an urban intensive care unit in Bangladesh: a case report

 

Day of admission

 

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Weight (g)

5900

6100

6700

6800

G-ORSa (ml/hr)

14.5

20

25

Serum sodium (mmol/L)

208.2

174

160.3

145.8

Serum potassium (mmol/L)

3.95

4.5

4.88

4.83

Serum chloride (mmol/L)

166.2

144.1

131.3

119.8

Serum bicarbonate (mmol/L)

26.4

22.2

20.8

15.3

pH

7.46

Glucose (mmol/L)

    

12:00 am

11.9

15.00

7.00 am

10.3

6.50

4.80

12.00 pm

11.3

4.00

  1. aG-ORS, Glucose-based oral rehydration salt.