| Literature DB >> 21144005 |
Mattia Peruzzo1, Gregorio P Milani, Luca Garzoni, Laura Longoni, Giacomo D Simonetti, Alberto Bettinelli, Emilio F Fossali, Mario G Bianchetti.
Abstract
There is a high frequency of diarrhea and vomiting in childhood. As a consequence the focus of the present review is to recognize the different body fluid compartments, to clinically assess the degree of dehydration, to know how the equilibrium between extracellular fluid and intracellular fluid is maintained, to calculate the effective blood osmolality and discuss both parenteral fluid maintenance and replacement.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 21144005 PMCID: PMC3022615 DOI: 10.1186/1824-7288-36-78
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ital J Pediatr ISSN: 1720-8424 Impact factor: 2.638
Figure 1Mechanisms underlying hypotonic hyponatremia. In most cases (middle panel) hyotonic hyponatemia results from a low effective arterial blood volume and is termed hypovolemic (or depletional) hyponatremia. The term syndrome of appropriate anti-diuresis has also been used to denote this condition. In childhood diarrhea, vomiting and febrile infections are the most common cause of hypovolemic hyponatremia. Persistently high levels of vasopressin or, exceptionally, an increased renal response to vasopressin cause the syndrome of inappropriate anti-diuresis (left panel), which is less frequent than the syndrome of appropriate anti-diuresis (hypovolemic or depletional hyponatremia). A peculiar form of depletional hyponatremia sometimes develops in patients with cerebral disease that mimics all of the findings in the syndrome of inappropriate anti-diuresis, except that renal salt-wasting is the primary defect with the ensuing volume depletion leading to a secondary rise in release of antidiuretic hormone (right panel). The ultimate causes of the three different conditions are "bordered".
Causes of hypotonic hyponatremia in childhood.
| Hypovolemic | Normovolemic (or hypervolemic) |
|---|---|
| - Diarrheal dehydration | - Parenteral hypotonic solutions |
| - Vomiting, gastric suction | - Exercise-associated hyponatermia |
| - Fistulae | - Habitual (and psychogenic) polydipsia |
| - Laxative abuse | |
| - Cystic fibrosis | - Cardiac failure |
| - Endurance sport | - Sever liver disease (mostly cirrhosis) |
| - Nephrotic syndrome | |
| - Glucocorticoid deficiency | |
| - Drugs causing renal water retention | |
| - HyopthyroidismΔ | |
| - Mineralocorticoid deficiency (or resistance) | - Classic syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone |
| - Diuretics | - Hereditary nephrogenic syndrome of inappropriate anti-dieresis |
| - Salt wasting renal failure | |
| - Salt wasting tubulopathies (including Bartter syndromes, Gitelman syndrome, and De Toni-Debré-Fanconi syndrome) | |
| - Cerebral salt wasting | |
| - Chronic renal failure | |
| - Oliguric acute renal failure | |
* Effective arterial blood volume mostly reduced; Δ evidence supporting this association rather poor.
Figure 2Hypotetical diagrams depicting the relationship between initial state of hydration and plasma sodium in acute meningitis (and respiratory infectious diseases). It has been traditionally assumed that hyponatremia is due to inappropriate anti-diuresis (left panel). On the contrary, most recent data indicate that hyponatremia is due to appropriate, volume-dependent anti-diuresis (right panel).
Causes of hypernatremia in childhood.
| Hypovolemic | Normovolemic | Hypervolemic |
|---|---|---|
| - Breast feeding hypernatremia | ||
| - Poor access to water | ||
| - Altered thirst perception (uncosciousness, mental impairment) | ||
| - Postobstructive polyuria | ||
| - Diuretics | ||
| - Diabetes insipidus | ||
| - Medullary renal damage |
Intravenous maintenance fluids designed to provide water and electrolyte requirements in a fasting patient.
| Holliday's recommendation | Current suggestion | |
|---|---|---|
| Solution | 5 percent dextrose in water supplemented with NaCl 3 mmol/kg body weight daily | Isotonic saline in 5 percent dextrose in water |
| Amount (ml/m2 body surface area* daily) | 1700-1800 | 1400-1500 |
| Clinical practice | 100 mL/kg body weight for a child weighing less than 10 kg◇ + 50 mL/kg for each additional kg up to 20 kg + 20-[ | 80 mL/kg body weight for a child weighing less than 10 kg◇ + 40 mL/kg for each additional kg up to 20 kg + 15-[ |
* the Mosteller's formula may be used to calculated the body surface area (in m2): ; ◇ in children weighing ≤5.0 kg the daily parenteral water requirement is 120 mL/kg body weight.
Both the recommendation originally described by Holliday and the most recent recommendation are given. The addition of KCl 2 mmol/kg body weight is also recommended.
Figure 3Cell volume in acute or subacute hypernatremia and following rapid correction of hypernatremia. When hypernatemia develops acutely, all cells are reduced in size (the degree of cell volume reduction reflects the degree of hypernatremia). When hypernatremia is present for 36-48 hours or more (= subacute hypernatremia), cell volume reduction persists in most cells, including muscle cells (upper panel). However, brain cells (and red blood cells) tend to restore their normal cell volume (lower panel). An abrupt normalization of sodium level in children with subacute or chronic hypernatremia pathologically increases the volume of brain cells (and red blood cells). Swelling of cells, which does not have serious consequences when it occurs in most organs, may have devastating consequences when it occurs in the brain (lower panel, right).