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What types of foods should be avoided in a patient with GERD because they decrease
LES pressure? - ✔✔Peppermint
The gastrointestinal effects of smoking include - ✔✔-reduction of LES pressure
-lower duodenal pH
-inhibition of pancreatic bicarbonate secretion
When a gastrectomy is performed with an accompanying sagotomy, what physiologic
changes occur? - ✔✔Antral and pyloric dysfunction, poor peristalsis, and diminished
gastric acid secretion
What symptoms of dumping syndrome follow the total or subtotal removal of the
stomach? - ✔✔Nausea, abdominal cramping, and diarrhea
A recommendation to a patient with gastroparesis who needs to gain weight would be:
- ✔✔ingest liquids or pureed foods
Which of the following is NOT associated with dyspepsia? - ✔✔being underweight
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, When an H2 blocker is used in the treatment of peptic ulcer disease, the patient may be
at risk for deficiency of which nutrient? - ✔✔Vitamin B12
Treating esophagitis with cimetidine, a histamine H2-receptor blocking agent, is
effective because it - ✔✔decreases gastric acid production
What nutrient has been associated with prevention of GI cancers? - ✔✔selenium
What causes the hypoglycemia that occurs after meals in patients who have had a
gastrectomy? - ✔✔rapid digestion and absorption of sugars and elevation of insulin
levels
A patient with gastroparesis may benefit by which of these drugs? -
✔✔Metoclopramide
Which of the following is NOT one of the benefits of using pectin to manage dumping
syndrome? - ✔✔Increased glucose absorption and insulin response
Evaluation of which of the following should be included in the nutritional assessment
of patients with atrophic gastritis? - ✔✔Vitamin B12 status
After gastric surgery, in general when can oral feedings be resumed? - ✔✔Once GI tract
functions returns
An out-pouching of a portion of the stomach into the chest through the esophageal
hiaturs of the diaphragm is - ✔✔hiatal hernia
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