TY  - JOUR
T1  - ATropine fever in early infancy
AU  - WHITE PJ
Y1  - 1929/04/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.1929.01930040054003
JO  - American Journal of Diseases of Children
SP  - 745
EP  - 750
VL  - 37
IS  - 4
N2  - My object in this paper is to emphasize by discussion a fact which is already known, but which has acquired new importance with the increasing use of atropine in the so-called "true colic" of early infancy; namely, that in certain cases, atropine produces an abrupt rise in temperature, even in average dosage.INDICATIONS FOR THE USE OF ATROPINE IN EARLY INFANCYBefore considering the frequency and the mechanism of this pyrexia, one should review for a moment the conditions for which atropine is commonly given to infants. There are principally two: pyloric stenosis and gastro-enterospasm, commonly miscalled pylorospasm.1 In a previous paper,2 the statement was made that atropine will cure the majority of patients with functional vagogenic gastro-enterospasm. The principal manifestations of this condition are (a) extreme fretfulness, aggravated by feeding, with inability to nurse because of cramps or "colic," with (b) occasional projectile vomiting, plus diarrhea or
SN  - 0096-8994
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1929.01930040054003
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1929.01930040054003
ER  -