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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1998;152:1243-1245.

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Oral antacids are occasionally prescribed for infantile colic, gastroesophageal reflux, esophagitis, and other peptic disorders.¹ It has long been known that prolonged treatment with nonabsorbable antacids such as aluminum-magnesium hydroxides can limit gastrointestinal absorption of phosphorus.² Hypophosphatemic bone disease, either rickets or osteomalacia, is a well-known complication of impaired renal tubular resorption of phosphate,³ but is rarely caused by nutritional phosphate deprivation. Although antacid-induced hypophosphatemic osteomalacia has been extensively reported in adults,^4-9 very few reports exist in the pediatric literature.^10-11 We report a case of rickets and secondary craniosynostosis in an infant following long-term administration of an aluminum-containing antacid.

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A 10-month-old white male infant was referred for evaluation of a bulging anterior fontanelle and growth failure. He was born at 37 weeks' gestation by cesarean section to a 29-year-old gravida 2, para 1 mother. Weight, length, and head circumference at birth were at the 75th, 25th, and 50th percentiles for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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