Infant masking of recurrent hypoglycaemia and metabolic disease
Bella Zhong, Michael Armarego, Nathan Dignam, Jye Gard · 2025
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Bella Zhong and co-authors warn about missed causes of low blood sugar in babies in a 2025 article. Young children slip into low blood sugar more easily than adults, especially when illness cuts feeding, and doctors often blame simple starvation ketosis. That quick label can be wrong: deeper metabolic causes are missed in up to twenty-eight percent of cases.
One trap is that babies can hide the problem. A child who feeds very often, for instance by frequent breastfeeding, may keep sugar levels afloat and mask an underlying disorder until a longer fast exposes it. The authors urge clinicians to look past the first easy explanation and weigh such confounders closely in young children with repeated episodes.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Bella Zhong, Michael Armarego, Nathan Dignam, Jye Gard |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 19 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |