GI Flashcards
1
Q
What are factors in GI disorders?
A
- abrupt change in diet
- dietary indiscretion
- malabsorption
- maldigestion
- allergies
- cancer
- parasites
- infectious agents
- toxins
- reactions to medication
2
Q
What is Acute Gastritis?
A
- self limiting
- vomiting resolves in 24-48 hrs
- causes: dietary indiscretion, foreign objects
3
Q
What is Chronic Gastritis?
A
- intermittent vomiting over a period of weeks to months
- cause is seldom determined
- inflammatory response stimulates acid secretion and damages normal mucosal barriers
4
Q
What is Small Bowel Disease?
A
- any condition that affects the small intestine
- includes inflamattion and infection
- diarrhea:large amounts of stool passed 3-5 times per day without straining
5
Q
What is Colitis?
A
- large bowel disease
- caused by: food sensitivity, parasites, infections, pancreatitis
6
Q
What are signals that facilitate digestion and metabolism?
A
- secretion of digestive enzymes
- optimize blood flow to small intestine
- delivery of nutrient to cells
- GI cell proliferation
7
Q
What are Negative effects that food can have?
A
- undigested food can trigger inflammatory response
- alter GI motility
- Alter microflora population
8
Q
Small Bowel Disorders
A
- diet should be highly digestable, low fat, high fiber
- high digestablility facilitates nutrient absorption, reduces potential for diarrhea
9
Q
What does Dietary Fiber help in Large Bowel Disorders?
A
- may benefit for moderate amounts of soluble and insoluble fiber
- restore normal intestinal motility
- dilute concentration of potential toxins
- bind to excess water
- reestablish normal microflora populations
- provide energy for colonocytes
10
Q
What are clinical signs of Pancreatitis?
A
- pyrexia (fever)
- cardiac arrhythmia
- liver damage
- kidney damage
- sepsis
- peritonitis
11
Q
What are clinical signs of Pancreatitis that owners may notice?
A
- vomiting
- lack of appetite
- lack of thirst
- weight loss
- weakness
- depression
- lethargy
- diarrhea
- dehydration
- abdominal pain
- tucked up belly
12
Q
What will Enternal Nutritional Support help with?
A
- pancreatitis
- stabilizes the gut barrier, improves enterocyte health, immune function, improves GI motility, prevents catabolism
13
Q
What feeding tubes can Enternal Nutrition be provided?
A
- Nasogastric
- Nasoesophogeal
- esophogostomy
- gastrotomy
- jejunostomy
14
Q
What is the main function of the GI?
A
- digest and absorb nutrients
- role in defending body
- represents first line of defense against potential pathogens, toxins and allergens
- bodys largest immune system
70% of immune system located here
15
Q
What is the function of Bacteria in the GI tract?
A
- aid in digestion
- aid in absorption of nutrients
- prevent infection
