Journal article

Publication year: 1996

Pages: 323-326

Journal: Klinische Pädiatrie

Volume number: 208

Issue number: 6

ISSN: 0300-8630

eISSN: 1439-3824

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2008-1046491

Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag

Abstract: 
A 14 weeks old infant was admitted to the intensive care unit with lifethreatening hypocalcemic-hyperphosphatemic spasms. Hypocalcemia-hyperphosphatemia was found to have been caused by feeding a high phosphate/low calcium soy milk. The daily uptake of calcium was calculated to have been 3,3-6 mmol that of phosphate 30 mmol. The parents strongly believed that soy milk formulas were equivalent to breast milk and cow's milk formulas and lived on a strictly vegetarian diet. Therapy with calcium (at an initial dose of 2,25 mmol/kg/day) and 1,25 OH vitamine D3 (Rocaltrol(R), 0,25 mu g/day) normalized Ca, PO4, vitamine D and parathyroid hormone levels rapidly. Vegetarian feeding had led to life-threatening hypocalcemic hyperphosphatemic spasms in the infant. We conclude that malnutrition and false nutritional beliefs have to be included as a potential cause of early hypocalcemia in infants.

Harvard Citation style: Anil, M., Demirakca, S., Dotsch, J. and Kiess, W. (1996) Hypocalcemia-hyperphosphatemia due to soy milk feeding in early infancy, Klinische Pädiatrie, 208(6), pp. 323-326. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2008-1046491

APA Citation style: Anil, M., Demirakca, S., Dotsch, J., & Kiess, W. (1996). Hypocalcemia-hyperphosphatemia due to soy milk feeding in early infancy. Klinische Pädiatrie. 208(6), 323-326. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2008-1046491