Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
Diagnosis & Tests
- symptoms that do not fit a classical picture of illness or do not fit together well
- improvement of symptoms on hospitalization with reappearance on return to home
- blood in lab specimens that does not match the patient's blood type
- evidence of drugs or chemicals in serum, stool, or urine that cannot be accounted for
- overattentive, "too helpful" behavior of parent, which raises suspicion in face of other findings
- often the parent is involved in a health-care field, such as nursing
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