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Title: Reuters: Drinking water can be harmful to smallest babies
Post by: NaDiNe on May 21, 2008, 09:41:32 PM
Drinking water can be harmful to smallest babies
      


NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Babies younger than six months old should never be given water to drink, physicians at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore remind parents. Consuming too much water can put babies at risk of a potentially life-threatening condition known as water intoxication.
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