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Cover: 'Insects in the garden' by Jay-Lee Shih, Grade 1,
Rondebosch Boys' Junior School
Editord F Wittenberg
Founding Editornonhlanhla P Khumalo
Editor-in-CHiEFdaniel J ncayiyana
dEPuty EditorJ P de V van niekerk
AssistAnt EditorEmma Buchanan
tECHniCAl EditorsMarijke Mareerobert MatzdorffPaula van der Bijl
nEWs EditorChris Bateman
MAnusCriPt trACKingElsa lampropoulos
HEAd: HEAltH And MEdiCAl PuBlisHingrobert Arendse
ProduCtion MAnAgErEmma Couzens
Art dirECtorsiobhan tillemans
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distriBution MAnAgErEdward Macdonald
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sAlEs tEAMlisa reid, Keith Hill, Andrew Cross, Valeria Howard, salie Petersen,
EditoriAl BoArd: sAJCH Prof. Miriam Adhikari (university of KwaZulu-natal, durban) Prof. Mariana Kruger (university of Pretoria) Prof. H rode (red Cross Hospital, Cape town) Prof. lewis spitz (Emeritus nuffield Professor of Paediatric surgery, london) Prof. A Venter (university of the Free state, Bloemfontein) dr tony Westwood (red Cross Hospital, Cape town) Prof. d F Wittenberg (university of Pretoria)
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SAJCHTHE SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF CHILD HEALTH
MARCH 2011 Volume 5 No. 1
CONTENTS Editorial • Why publish? Why publish here? 2
D F Wittenberg
HotTopics • Rehydration in acute gastro-enteritis – the value of going rapid and enteral 3 Anthony T Westwood
Letters • The safety of rapid rehydration in dehydrating diarrhoea in a busy
rehydration unit 5 A T R Westwood, C Bromley
• Possible drug reaction, eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome in a infant 6
Chris Rainier-Pope
Articles • HIV co-infection with hepatitis B and C viruses among Nigerian children
in an antiretroviral treatment programme 7 A E Sadoh, W E Sadoh, N J Iduoriyekemwen
• Ocular changes in multi-transfused children with β-thalassaemia receiving desferrioxamine: A case-control study 11
Pooja Dewan, Sunil Gomber, Hitesh Chawla, Jolly Rohatgi
• Predictors of paediatric injury mortality 15 S A Adegoke, L M Oginni
CaseReports • Umbilical cord ulceration and jejunal atresia 19 Cheryl Mackay, Victor Davies
• Gorlin syndrome 21 Jennifer Ann Geel, Kate Gwynneth Bennett, Jonathan Mark Rigby, Janet Elizabeth Poole
BookReview 23
CPDQuestions 24
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