Endocrine Abstracts

Peripartum hyponatraemia is an under-recognised complication of labour and poses a risk to both mother and baby. It is typically caused by water intoxication for physiological reasons and population health trends around water intake. We have recent experience of managing 2 patients with severe symptomatic hyponatraemia. Both patients had increased their oral intake of fluid during labour as well as receiving intravenous fluids. Dilutional hyponatraemia was found to be the unde...