NU 665 EXAM 1 LATEST UPDATE
VERIFIED QUESTIONS & DETAILED
EXPLANATIONS GRADED A+
Professional Academic Assistance Services
Female Athlete Triad - Answer: health concern for active
women and girls who are driven to excel in sports.
It involves three distinct and
interrelated conditions:
1. disordered eating (a range of poor nutritional behaviors)
2. amenorrhea (irregular or absent menstrual periods) and
3. osteoporosis
Diabulimia - Answer: Deliberate insulin underuse in people with
Type 1 diabetes for the purposes of weight loss
Orthorexia - Answer: Orthorexia nervosa is not currently
recognized as a clinical diagnosis in the DSM-5, but many people
struggle with symptoms associated with this term.
,Those who have an "unhealthy obsession" with otherwise
healthy eating may be suffering from "orthorexia nervosa," a
term which literally means "fixation on righteous eating."
Orthorexia starts out as an innocent attempt to eat more
healthfully, but orthorexics become fixated on food quality and
purity.
Rumination Disorder - Answer: the regurgitation of recently
eaten food into the mouth followed by either rechewing,
reswallowing, or spitting it out
Pica - Answer: an abnormal craving or appetite for nonfood
substances, such as dirt, paint, or clay that lasts for at least 1
month
Maudsley Model - Answer: Eating Disorder tx, effective for
teens.
Family Based therapy that is an intensive outpatient refeeding
program w/ parents playing active and positive role in helping
child restore weight to normal levels
Refeeding syndrome - Answer: a syndrome consisting of
metabolic disturbances that occur as a result of reinstitution of
nutrition to patients who are starved, severely malnourished
, -can be fatal if note recognized. If potassium, phosphate, and
magnesium are low this should be corrected
-usually occurs within first 4 days of refeeding
leads to: confusion, coma, convulsions, and cardiac failure
Renourishment - Answer: process of avoiding refeeding
syndrome.
Medication for Bulimia - Answer: Fluoxetine has shown best
efficacy in tx bulimia. However other SSRIs like sertraline are
also appropriate options
Medications for binge eating disorder - Answer: Topamax
Naltrexone
Vyvanse
Medication options for Obsessive thoughts (r/t eating disorders)
- Answer: Zyprexa (low body weight)
Risperdal
Seroquel
VERIFIED QUESTIONS & DETAILED
EXPLANATIONS GRADED A+
Professional Academic Assistance Services
Female Athlete Triad - Answer: health concern for active
women and girls who are driven to excel in sports.
It involves three distinct and
interrelated conditions:
1. disordered eating (a range of poor nutritional behaviors)
2. amenorrhea (irregular or absent menstrual periods) and
3. osteoporosis
Diabulimia - Answer: Deliberate insulin underuse in people with
Type 1 diabetes for the purposes of weight loss
Orthorexia - Answer: Orthorexia nervosa is not currently
recognized as a clinical diagnosis in the DSM-5, but many people
struggle with symptoms associated with this term.
,Those who have an "unhealthy obsession" with otherwise
healthy eating may be suffering from "orthorexia nervosa," a
term which literally means "fixation on righteous eating."
Orthorexia starts out as an innocent attempt to eat more
healthfully, but orthorexics become fixated on food quality and
purity.
Rumination Disorder - Answer: the regurgitation of recently
eaten food into the mouth followed by either rechewing,
reswallowing, or spitting it out
Pica - Answer: an abnormal craving or appetite for nonfood
substances, such as dirt, paint, or clay that lasts for at least 1
month
Maudsley Model - Answer: Eating Disorder tx, effective for
teens.
Family Based therapy that is an intensive outpatient refeeding
program w/ parents playing active and positive role in helping
child restore weight to normal levels
Refeeding syndrome - Answer: a syndrome consisting of
metabolic disturbances that occur as a result of reinstitution of
nutrition to patients who are starved, severely malnourished
, -can be fatal if note recognized. If potassium, phosphate, and
magnesium are low this should be corrected
-usually occurs within first 4 days of refeeding
leads to: confusion, coma, convulsions, and cardiac failure
Renourishment - Answer: process of avoiding refeeding
syndrome.
Medication for Bulimia - Answer: Fluoxetine has shown best
efficacy in tx bulimia. However other SSRIs like sertraline are
also appropriate options
Medications for binge eating disorder - Answer: Topamax
Naltrexone
Vyvanse
Medication options for Obsessive thoughts (r/t eating disorders)
- Answer: Zyprexa (low body weight)
Risperdal
Seroquel
