Answers and Illustrations Given
Macronutrients - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔carbohydrates, proteins, and fats
Micronutrients - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔vitamins and minerals
Carbohydrates - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Convert to glucose, excess intake
converts to glycogen, fat
Lipids - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Secondary source of energy, storage form of
excess energy
,What are the fat soluble vitamins - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A, D, E, K (these are
stored in body)
What are the water soluble vitamins? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔B and C
Where in the GI tract are nutrients absorbed? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Small
intestine
Where in the GI tract is fluid absorbed? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Colon
Risks of undernutrition in children - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔RF infection, slower
development/growth, failure to thrive, learning disabilities
RF for poor nutrition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Chronic illness, poor, older,
hospitalized, eating disorder, alcohol abuse
Modifiable risk factors for nutrition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔food choice, portion
size, and nutritional intake
How to assess nutritional status - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Anthropometry (height
and weight, BMI, skinfolds), mini nutritional assessment
Labs: lipids, CBC, glucose, albumin, protein, electrolytes, H and H
,T or F: families are the cause of eating disorders - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔F-
enabler, not cause
RF anorexia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Caucasian, teen
S/S of anorexia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Brittle hair/nails, dry and yellow skin,
lanugo, hypothermia, low pulse and BP, HF, osteoporosis
S/S of bulimia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔bingeing and purging, excessive exercise,
menstrual irregularities, stomach pain, sore throat, scars on fingers,
damage to teeth, electrolyte disturbance, bloating
RF of bulimia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Thin body ideal, childhood abuse, childhood
obesity, early pubertal maturation
Diagnostics for anorexia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Albumin, protein, electrolytes,
bone density, ECG, kidney/thyroid/liver test, urinalysis
Diagnostics for bulimia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Dental assessment, physical
exam, electrolytes, dehydration
Pharm for anorexia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Antidepressants, antipsychotics,
mood stabilizers
Pharm for bulimia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Fluoxetine- decreases binge/purges
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Therapy for anorexia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔individual/group/family therapy
Therapy for bulimia/binge eating - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔CBT
Admission criteria for eating disorder - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Immediate risk,
<75% ideal body weight, ongoing weight loss despite intensive
management, hemodynamic instability, CV risk, electrolyte abnormalities,
risk of harm to self or others
Interventions for eating disorders - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Decrease exposure to
stress, limit caffeine and stimulants, teach self-soothing, eliminate drugs
and alcohol, increase social/familial connectedness, monitor I and O and
for fluid overload, limit activity and energy expenditure, avoid rapid weight
gain, encourage diminished focus on weight
RF for addiction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Homelessness, early aggressive
behavior, lack of parental supervision, drug availability, poverty, family hx,
burnout, mood disorders, stress
S/S of addiction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Fatigue, insomnia, HA, anorexia, sexual
dysfunction, change in mood, weight loss, vague physical complaints