Pediatrics Flashcards
Skin to skin contact is important for baby because why?
- Temperature (d/t surface to volume - rapid heat loss)
- Immune function - less infection
- Psychological Benefits
* Surface to volume ratio in newborn conducive to rapid heat and fluid losses
How long to breast feed?
breast feeding for the first 6 months of life and then continue another 6 months
Breast feeding reduces what kind of infections?
- Lower incidence of infections:
- including otitis media,
- lung infection,
- pneumonia
- sepsis
- meningitis
True or False:
Human milk contains bacterial and viral antibodies (secretory IgA) and macrophages?
True
Lactoferrin is a protein found in breast milk that inhibits growth of what?
E. coli.
True or False:
ALL states do newborn screening test for galactosemia / phenylketonuria at birth?
False:
hypothyroidism & phenylketonuria (can cause development, cognitive )
True or False:
MOST states check for
1. galactosemia (sugar - brain involvement)
2. sickle cell disease (s hemoglobin)
TRUE….and ALL states check for…
- hypothyroidism
- phenylketonuria
FTT (Failure To Thrive)
FTT is suspected when growth is below the 3rd or 5th percentile
Poor growth without a medical etiology. Often related to poverty or poor caregiver-child interaction.
Nonorganic FTT
Poor growth caused by an underlying medical condition, such as inflammatory bowel disease, renal disease, or congenital heart conditions.
Organic FTT
CBC (Complete Blood Count) used for FTT why?
To check for infection.
Laboratory evaluation is usually limited to a complete blood count (CBC), a lead level, urinalysis and culture and a serum electrolyte level including calcium, blood urea nitrogen / [BUN] and creatinine - to check function of kidney.
A TB skin test and HIV virus testing may also be indicated.
Healthy infant versus FTT?
Healthy infants in their first year of life require approx. 120 kcal/kg/d of nutrition, and 100 kcal/kg/d thereafter.
- versus -
FTT children require and additional 50%-100% to ensure adequate catch-up growth.
True or False?
Solid foods are offered before liquids, children are not force fed
True
Hearing is measured at birth why?
Check for Otitis Media- could lead to hearing loss. Could cause rupture. In an adult pain will go away with hearing loss.
True or False?
The two classic infectious etiologies for acquired hearing loss in children are meningitis and recurrent otitis media?
True
Premature babies are at risk for what condition?
Anemia
Routine screening for anemia is done primarily when there are risk factors for iron deficiency during infancy (i.e., prematurity, low birth weight, and poor dietary intake).
Baby formulas contain iron supplementation
True or False:
Menstruating adolescent females are also at risk for iron deficiency anemia.
True
A risk factor for neurologic damage including retardation, learning disabilities and hyperactivity.
Lead - Routine screening is controversial, usually only done now in high risk individuals (i.e., child is a paint chip eater, or lives near an old battery factory).
First dentist appointment is by ? years of age.
2-3 years
What vitamin can newborns likely be deficient in?
Mostly supplementation is needed only if there is inadequate maternal Vit. D intake.
Reduced sunlight exposure, and/or breast feeding beyond the first 6 months of life are risk factors warranting Vit. D supplementation.
Why are vaccinations good?
Vaccination programs have eliminated small pox, and reduced the incidence of diseases (Haemophilus influenza type B [Hib], polio, measles, tetanus, rubella, and diphtheria).
What are true contraindications to vaccinations?
- Immediate hypersensitivity reactions to a vaccine, vaccine component or preservative agent.
- Egg hypersensitivity is contraindication to influenza and yellow fever vaccines
In general, live virus vaccines are not given to pregnant women and severely immunocompromised patients, but they are given to a child living in the home with a pregnant woman.
Serum follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and lutenizing hormone (LH) levels as well as bone age x-rays are helpful first steps in the diagnostic workup checks for what condition?
Precocious Puberty
Precocious Puberty is a problem with what gland?
Pituitary
Precocious Puberty might be the problem if there are early signs of puberty at what ages? 1. girls by age ___?
2. boys by age ___?
- Girls age 8
2. Boys age 9
No signs of puberty: girls by age 13, in boys by age 14?
- Delayed Puberty
- Precocious Puberty
Delayed
True or False: Stage I is adult, Stage V is pre-adolescent.
Stage I is pre-adolesecent, Stage V is adult.
True (Central) Precocious Puberty?
- Gonadotropin-dependent.
- Gonadotropin-independent.
- Gonadotropin-dependent.