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Editord F Wittenberg

Founding Editornonhlanhla P Khumalo

Editor-in-CHiEFdaniel J ncayiyana

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nEWs EditorChris Bateman

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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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