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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 11:17:55 -0400
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From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Brandon Wapoose malnutrition death, sister/brother rickets
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Thursday, June 24, 1999 Malnutrition killed baby
Fatality inquiry told CoffeeMate diet led to
10-month-old's death
By TONY BLAIS, SUN MEDIA
EDMONTON -- A 10-month-old northern Alberta infant who was regularly fed
diluted CoffeeMate died as a result of malnutrition, a fatality inquiry
heard yesterday. Dr. Graeme Dowling, the province's chief medical examiner,
compared Brandon Wapoose's condition to starving African children. "That is
the type of malnutrition this child had," said Dowling, adding this is the
only such case he's ever seen in Alberta. The infant from the Fox Lake
Reserve, a small community in northern Alberta, died April 7, 1998, at
Edmonton's University hospital after being admitted two weeks earlier with
severe malnutrition.
Wapoose, who also had a viral illness, ended up at University
Hospital after going from the Fox Lake nursing station to
hospitals in Fort Vermilion and then Grande Prairie. Dowling testified that
he learned that a large part of Wapoose's diet consisted of diluted coffee
whitener. An autopsy revealed many typical signs of malnutrition, the
underlying cause of Wapoose's death, said Dowling. "The thing that started
the ball rolling for this child's downward spiral was malnutrition," said
Dowling.
"He might have been receiving sufficient calories but not sufficient
protein," he said. Dr. Allan De Caen, a pediatric intensive care unit
physician at University hospital, testified that Wapoose's mother agreed
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