PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Guy Daynes
TI  - The perished rubber sign in gastroenteritis
DP  - 1974 Oct 01
TA  - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
PG  - 733--735
VI  - 24
IP  - 147
4099  - http://bjgp.org/content/24/147/733.short
4100  - http://bjgp.org/content/24/147/733.full
SO  - J R Coll Gen Pract1974 Oct 01; 24
AB  - The abdominal skin and underlying fatty tissues of babies developing severe gastroenteritis occasionally feel somewhat like a piece of perished rubber. Evidence for this being an important sign indicating a seriously ill baby is given; attention is drawn to the possible value of corticosteroids in the treatment of cases where this sign persists after satisfactory dehydration has been carried out.