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Clinical Kidney Journal 2018 April
Ensuring adequate nutrition in children with chronic kidney disease whilst avoiding hyperkalaemia can be a difficult balance to achieve. Pre-treatment of feeds, whether milk, formula or enteral nutrition, with sodium polystyrene sulfonate (SPS) is practiced in some paediatric centres internationally. Such treatments are purported to avoid the potentially serious complications of direct administration of SPS, such as intestinal necrosis, aspiration pneumonitis and metabolic alkalosis to name but a few. Although described some 45 years ago, this study by Palma et al . is only the second retrospective study to describe the clinical consequence of pre-treating feeds with SPS with the majority of earlier studies describing only the in vitro effects of this method. Whilst effective in reducing serum potassium, the authors justifiably highlight the high incidence of complications, such as hypokalaemia (31.6%) and hypernatraemia (26.3%). We have further highlighted this with a summary of the available literature on this subject demonstrating the gross alterations of the electrolyte composition of feeds following SPS pre-treatment and clinical complications in its application. We heartily agree and support the conclusion by Palma et al . that where this therapy is practiced, close monitoring of electrolytes is essential and much more work is needed to identify those patient cohorts for which this can indeed be considered a safe and effective intervention.
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