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A 4-year-old girl presents with her parents to the emergency room you work at. Her parents explain that the flu is going around her daycare and that their daughter began to feel sick 4 days ago. She has been unable to eat since then, with prolonged vomiting for 3 days. She is admitted to the hospital for rehydration and correction of her acid–base disturbance.

Her parents are highly concerned about how she could have developed an acid–base disturbance from the flu. How do you respond to this concern by the parents?

The reason this 4-year-old girl developed an acid-base imbalance as a result of the flu is because she had uncontrolled vomiting for 3 days. The excess loss of hydrogen ions also known as fixed acids that occur with prolonged vomiting caused her to develop metabolic alkalosis (Grossman