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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2005 20(11):2543-2544; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfi100
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Case Report

A bag full of sugar makes your sodium go down!

Ralf Reuters1, Walther Boer2, Rogier Simmermacher3 and Loek Leenen3

1 Department of Intensive Care, 2 Department of Nephrology and 3 Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Ralf Reuters, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, the Netherlands. Email: r.reuters@planet.nl

Keywords: absorption; acute renal failure; hyponatraemia; plasma osmolality

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For many years granulated sugar and honey have been used to promote wound healing [1,2], especially in the tropical areas of the world. Already by the 17th century the value of sugar in wound healing was reported [3], but also in modern medicine there is still a widespread, though not evidence-based, use and even a revival of sugar and honey use in topical wound care. Both substances have been shown to have . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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