A Clinical and Biochemical Study of Galactosaemia: A Possible Explanation of the Nature of the Biochemical Lesion

Abstract

to be non-fermentable sugar. By this time the weight loss was 20 oz. and the liver had enlarged yet further to three fingers below the costal margin. The child was once again put on glucose saline feeds with 'casilan'. On June 23, when the child was 16 days old, the diagnosis of galactosaemia was made.