Week 5 Nutrition

Question 1

What is considered body fluids?

Answer 1

Water
– Electrolytes
–Glucose
–Proteins

Question 2

What fluid is being tested when pulling blood?

Answer 2

ECF

Question 3

What can cause edema related to ECF

Answer 3

accumulation of liquids in the interstitial space

Question 4

What is the range of calcium?
What does it have a inverse relationship to?
And what is it needed for?

Answer 4

9.0 - 10.5 mg/dL

• Inverse relationship to phosphate
• Needed for muscle contraction

Question 5

What electrolytes located mainly in the ICF and bones

Answer 5

Calcium, Magnesium, phosphate

Question 6

What is the range of magnesium?
What electrolyte is it similar too?

Answer 6

1.3-2.1 mEq/L
Calcium

Question 7

What range is phosphate?

Where is phosphate mostly found?

What electrolyte does it have a inverse relationship?

What shifts phosphate into the cell?

Answer 7

3.0-4.5 mg/dL

• ICF and the bones

-insulin and epinephrine shift it into the cell

Question 8

What is the range of potassium?

What space is it mostly found?

What shifts potassium into the cell?

Answer 8

3.5-5 mEq/L

-ICF

-insulin, alkalosis and epinephrine shift it into the cell

Question 9

What electrolyte is imPortant for normal muscle function?

Answer 9

Potassium

Question 10

explain EKG of hyperkalemia

Question 11

What is the difficulty of swallowing called?

Answer 11

Dysphagia

Question 12

What are the 3 types of dysphagia

Answer 12

• Myogenic
  -Neurogenic
  -Obstructive