The fetus may already have been compromised by intrauterine growth retardation, and with the toxemic changes during eclampsia may suffer fetal distress.

At Children's Institute No. 28, home to about 500 children with severe handicaps, about half of them orphans, doctors say that from their practice, they see more and more children born with deformities as a result of toxemic pregnancies.

Colitis X, equine colitis X or peracute toxemic colitis is a catchall term for various fatal forms of acute or peracute colitis found in horses, but particularly a fulminant colitis where clinical signs include sudden onset of severe diarrhea, abdominal pain, shock, and dehydration.