[Pseudohyperaldosteronism secondary to licorice poisoning associated with hemorrhagic gastritis].

The case is described of a 6 1/2-year-old child with pseudohyperaldosteronism due to excessive and prolonged liquorice ingestion. The authors debate its differential diagnosis, its physiopathological mechanism (glycyrrhetinic acid, the active metabolite of liquorice, inhibits the conversion of cortisol in cortisone) and its unusual association with haemorrhagic gastritis never observed in the course of liquorice intoxication.