Abstract :
Objective: To study the incidence of hyponatremia in children, suffering from pneumonia and to find the association between the presence of hyponatremia with age and gender of children suffering from pneumonia.
Materials and Methods: The study was conducted at The Department of Pediatrics, Muzaffarnagar Medical College, Muzaffarnagar. Cases were taken from the Pediatric inpatients department of the hospital. All children, ranging between 01 year and 15 years, admitted for pneumonia from Feb, 2019 to Feb 2020, were taken up for the study.
Conclusion: Hyponatremia is an electrolyte abnormali ty which is quite common in children with pneumonia, and there is no age or sex predisposition seen in association with hyponatremia.
Keyword :
Hyponatremia SIADH.