Pediatric Reflexes Quiz Nad Answers.

PEDIATRIC REFLEXES QUIZ NAD
ANSWERS.
Rooting Reflex - Answers-- Birth to 3 months
- Assists with breastfeeding
- Infant will turn head toward anything that strokes it's cheek/mouth

Galant - Answers-- Birth to 3 months
- When the skin along the side of an infant's back is stroked, the infant will swing
towards the side that was stroked

Suck Swallow - Answers-- Birth to 6 months
- Infant will instinctively suck anything that touches the roof of their mouth

Traction reflex - Answers-- Birth to 6 months
- when in supine pull up and place stretch on shoulder and arm flexors and reflex is to
flex and elevate arms/shoulders/wrists
- enable child to hold onto the mother when being pulled

Moro - Answers-- Birth to 6 months
- response to a sudden loss of support, when the infant feels as if it is falling
- Response is:
1) spreading out the arms (abduction)
2) unspreading the arms (adduction)
3) crying (usually)

ATNR - Answers-- Birth to 6 months
- When the face is turned to one side, the arm and leg on the side to which the face is
turned extend and the arm and leg on the opposite side flex
- aka the "fencers reflex"

Palmar - Answers-- Birth to 6 months

Tonic Labyrinthine Supine - Answers-- Birth to 6 months
- tilting head back will cause extension of arms and legs
- tilting head forward will cause flexion of head and arms

Tonic Labyrinthine Prone - Answers-- Birth to 6 months
- tilting head forward will cause flexion of head and arms

Plantar Grasp - Answers-- Birth to 9 months

Landau - Answers-- 3 months to 2 years
- when held in prone, when head held down feet go down, when head goes up feet go
up