Pediatric Nutritional Support — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Persistent diarrhea is defined as stool volume of more than _____ g/kg/day in toddlers/infants and greater than 200 g/day in older children that lasts for 14 days or more.

Answer: 10

Flashcard 2: An abdominal mass in a patient with congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis is best seen during _____

Answer: feeding

Flashcard 3: _____tonic dehydration with acidosis is the most common finding in children with severe viral enteritis

Answer: Iso

Flashcard 4: What is the most common cause of pancreatic insufficiency in children?_____

Answer: Cystic fibrosis

Flashcard 5: _____ is a disorder of vesicular transport that leads to deficient brush border assembly, and presents as diarrhea before 3 months age

Answer: Davidson disease

Flashcard 6: Infant presenting with failure to thrive, steatorrhea, _____ in the peripheral smear is suggestive of _____.

Answer: acanthocytosis; abetalipoproteinemia

Flashcard 7: The most common extraintestinal manifestation of celiac disease in the paediatric age group is _____

Answer: iron-deficiency anaemia

Flashcard 8: What is the most common cause of short bowel syndrome in children?_____

Answer: Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)

Extra: Common causes of Short Bowel Syndrome (SBS) in children: 1. **Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)**: Most common cause overall (approx. 35-50% of cases). 2. **Intestinal atresia** 3. **Gastroschisis** 4. **Midgut volvulus**

Flashcard 9: Exposure to whole cow s milk protein can cause _____ in infants

Answer: chronic intestinal blood loss

Flashcard 10: What is the classification of the following type of jejunoileal atresia? _____

Answer: Type IIIa