Fructosaemia: An Inborn Error of Fructose Metabolism

Abstract

Case Reports Case 1. A girl was born at home on July 3, 1961, after a normal pregnancy and delivery, birth weight 9 lb. 8 oz. (4 3 kg.). The parents are not consanguineous and this is the fourth child. She was breast-fed for 13 days and then changed to cows' milk and water. On the fourteenth day she vomited after her 8 p.m. feed and became blue over her entire scalp. She was admitted the next day to King's College Hospital for investigation of cyanosis and purpura of the scalp. During her two- day stay in hospital, the cyanosis disappeared and the purpura improved. She was discharged on a diet of 220 on July 23,