“…Glucose administration to women in labour is used in many places in ord er to augment the fetal chances of survival where there is asphyxia during birth [R om ney and G abel, 1966;Paterson et al, 1967a;P r Fbylova and Z nam en a cek , 1970; H u t e r , 1972; Sabata et al, 1973]. The metabolic conse quences for the human fetus of such a treatment are not fully known, having been studied mainly by single-point determinations of biochemical param eters in fetal blood [Paterson et al, 1967a;A n d erson et al, 1970], The opin ion has recently been expressed that glucose load to parturients may adverse ly increase the acidosis in the oxygen-deprived fetus owing to a rise of plasma lactate [Shelley, 1973].…”