Tuesday 4 October 2011

Milk-alkali syndrome (Burnett's syndrome)

In medicine, milk-alkali syndrome, also called Burnett's syndrome in honour of Charles Hoyt Burnett, the American physician who first described it, is characterized by hypercalcemia caused by repeated ingestion of calcium and absorbable alkali (such as calcium carbonate, or milk and sodium bicarbonate). If untreated, milk-alkali syndrome may lead to metastatic calcification and renal failure. It was most common in the early 20th century, but there has been a recent increase in the number of cases reported.

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