NU 665 Exam 1 questions and correct answers
1.Female Athlete Triad: 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
2.Diabulimia: Deliberate insulin underuse in people with Type 1
diabetes for the purposes of weight loss
3.Orthorexia: 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 right- eous eating."
Orthorexia starts out as an innocent attempt to eat more healthfully,
but orthorexics become fixated on food quality and purity.
4.Rumination Disorder: the regurgitation of recently eaten food into
the mouth followed by either rechewing, reswallowing, or spitting it
out
5.Pica: an abnormal craving or appetite for nonfood substances, such as
dirt, paint, or clay that lasts for at least 1 month
6.Maudsley Model: 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
7.Refeeding syndrome: 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
8.Renourishment: process of avoiding refeeding syndrome.
9.Medication for Bulimia: Fluoxetine has shown best efficacy in tx
bulimia. How- ever other SSRIs like sertraline are also appropriate
options
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, NU 665 Exam 1 questions and correct answers
10.Medications for binge eating disorder:
Topamax Naltrexone
Vyvanse
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12
1.Female Athlete Triad: 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
2.Diabulimia: Deliberate insulin underuse in people with Type 1
diabetes for the purposes of weight loss
3.Orthorexia: 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 right- eous eating."
Orthorexia starts out as an innocent attempt to eat more healthfully,
but orthorexics become fixated on food quality and purity.
4.Rumination Disorder: the regurgitation of recently eaten food into
the mouth followed by either rechewing, reswallowing, or spitting it
out
5.Pica: an abnormal craving or appetite for nonfood substances, such as
dirt, paint, or clay that lasts for at least 1 month
6.Maudsley Model: 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
7.Refeeding syndrome: 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
8.Renourishment: process of avoiding refeeding syndrome.
9.Medication for Bulimia: Fluoxetine has shown best efficacy in tx
bulimia. How- ever other SSRIs like sertraline are also appropriate
options
1/
12
, NU 665 Exam 1 questions and correct answers
10.Medications for binge eating disorder:
Topamax Naltrexone
Vyvanse
2/
12
