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acute diarrhea causes Answer - - Rotavirus
- Diet/food
- Infection
- Medication - ANTIBIOTICS
- Toxic substances
What are you worried about with acute diarrhea? Answer - - Dehydration( look
at skin turgor)
- Electrolyte imbalance
Interventions for Acute Diarrhea Answer - - Give Pedialyte
- IV fluids, NO FRUIT JUICE
- Electrolytes, START with bland, soft food
Prevention for Acute Diarrhea Answer - - Handwashing
- Proper Food handling
Cleft lip and palate Meaning Answer - - Facial malformation during embryonic
development
,- Native American/ Asian Male
Cleft lip and palate risk factors Answer - - Smoking
- Gestational Diabetes
- Use of certain meds
- Lack of folic acid prenatal
Cleft lip and palate interventions Answer - - Haberman feeder
- Promote bonding between family
- Burp infants often
- No- Nos ( elbow restraints: take off every 1-2hrs)
- Apply petroleum jelly to operative site
- Feed with syringe/ dropper until surgical site is healed
Intussuspection Answer - - Intestines folding into itself causing an obstruction
normally at the ileocecal valve
Intussuspection Risk Factors Answer - - Males less than 18 months
- Cystic Fibrosis
Intussuspection signs and symptoms Answer - - Current jelly stool
-Sausage shaped mass in RUG
- pulling legs to chest
- Vomitting
Intussuspection Systom triad Answer - - Stool with blood
- Screaming with drawing up legs
, - Paroxysmal episodic abdominal pain with vomitting every 5-30 minutes.
Intussuspection Dx Answer - - BARIUM ENEMA
- Abdominal ultrasound
Intussuspection Intervention Answer - - Monitor for signs of perforation,
peritonitis and shock.
- coach and reeda stool and if patient passed stool alert pcp.
- If child has surgery: NPO, NGT, IV fluids
- Fever greater than 99.5 is very bad, alert PCP.
- Moniotor for infection
failure to thrive Answer - a condition in which infants become malnourished
and fail to grow or gain weight for no obvious medical reason
Failure to thrive symptoms Answer - - weight < 5th percentile, length WNL
- decreased or lack of subcutaneous fat
- pale skin
- developmental delays
- Decreased albumin levels
appendicitis Answer - inflammation of the appendix
appendictis s/s Answer - - Periumbilical pain
- RLQ pain
Appendictis Interventions Answer - - Monitor VS