Abstract

LARIOS ORTIZ, Luis. Methemoglobinemia in children: current Situation. AMC [online]. 2009, vol.13, n.3, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1025-0255.

A review of the situation of the infantile methemoglobinemia by ingestion of underground waters in the last years is made, as much in Cuba as in other countries. It is clearly exposed that are the high contents of nitrates in the waters the most responsible for the appearance of the entity. In the case of Cuba, it is refer to the first case report in the year 1980 in Holguín and to the different investigations that have been made in the country on the matter in the last years.

Keywords : Methemoglobinemia; child.

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