Malabsorptive diseases

Question 1

How do you diagnose a lactose deficiency?

Answer 1

Hydrogen breath test

Question 2

What is the treatment for tropical sprue?

Answer 2

Tetracycline and folic acid

Question 3

What causes Whipple’s disease?

Answer 3

Tropheryma whipplei

Question 4

What is the treatment for giardia?

Answer 4

metronidozole 1 week

Question 5

What is the cardinal sign of small bowel bacterial overgrowth?

Answer 5

Macrolytic anaemia

Question 6

What causes a small bowel bacterial overgrowth?

Answer 6

Diverticula
Structures
Fistulas

Question 7

What is the diagnostic test for a small bowel bacterial overgrowth?

Answer 7

Schillings

Question 8

What is the treatment for small bowel bacterial overgrowth?

Answer 8

Tetracycline 2-3 weeks

Question 9

What is the definitions of short bowel syndrome?

Answer 9

Less than 200cm

Less than 50 cm = PE nutrition

Question 10

What is the drugs prescribed in short bowel syndrome?

Answer 10

PPI
Loperamide
Codiene
Octreotide

Question 11

What are the signs of refeeding syndrome?

Answer 11

Hypokalemia
Hypomagnesaemia
Altered glucose metabolism 
FLUID RETENTION
Vitamen deficiency

Question 12

What can happen in a person with refeeding sydnrome?

Answer 12

Resp failure
Cardiac failure
Bone marrow suppression
Seizures