TY  - JOUR
T1  - ATropine hyperpyrexia in early infancy
AU  - MUNNS GF
Y1  - 1929/07/20
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1929.02710030007004
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 171
EP  - 173
VL  - 93
IS  - 3
N2  - This report will show that atropine administered to infants in the dose ordinarily used may cause an exceedingly high temperature. There are probably a great many physicians who have noted such a reaction, particularly since atropine has come to be so commonly used in the treatment of infants having pylorospasm or gastro-enterospasm.The highest temperature due to an atropine reaction that I have witnessed was 109 F. This instance is reported in detail later.The literature is notably silent concerning such a reaction. White1 of St. Louis recently reported two cases of atropine fever in infants. The highest temperature that he reported was 104 F. I can add very little to his review of the literature or to his discussion of the possible causes of these reactions. Benzing2 has reported similar reactions. These instances were not true hyperpyrexias, the highest temperature he noted being 102.6 F.Atropine hyperpyrexias
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1929.02710030007004
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02710030007004
ER  -