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Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008, 2:238
Stephen Kircher et al., University Würzburg, Germany, present the case of a 12-month-old boy who suffered from perinatal asphyxia during delivery, resulting in severe hypoxic encephalopathy with tetraparesis and epilepsy. In addition he suffered from considerable dysphagia from birth. For this reason his parents provided artificial nutrition by a stomach tube at home, consisting of hydrolysed milk formula based on amino acids and a natural thickening agent composed of carob seed flour. The patient had a history of abdominal pain, fever and nausea one week prior to being referred to a paediatric clinic with symptoms of acute abdomen, increasing fever, cyanosis and epileptic seizures.
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