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GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS
INFLAMMATORY
ulcerative colitis, peritonitis-spreading inflammation from throughout body with appendicitis.
Fecalith
hardened fecal material which is obstruction that causes appendicitis.
Parasite Enterobius vermicularis is
pinworms which can obstruct appendiceal lumen.
Average age of child with Appendicitis
10 years old boys and girls equally.
Symptoms of Appendicitis
periumbilical pain followed by nauseau right lower abd pain, vomiting with fever within 48 hours perfusion 1/3 already perforated when presentation occurs.
Complications of Appendicitis
major abcess, phlegmon, enterocutaneous fistula, perittonitis, and partial and partial bowel obstruction. Also caused by viral infection swollen lymphoid tissue.
Appendicitis drain used after surgery
Penrose
Appendicitis never
administer laxatives, supply heat, (stimulate bowel motility and increase risk of perforation.
Appendicitis recovery time and peritonitis
usually 7-10 days in hospital
Meckal Diverticulum
remnant of the fetal omphalomes-enteric duct that connects the yolk sac with the primitive midgut during fetal life. Failure may result in OMPHalomesenteric fistula a fibrous band connecting the small intestine to umbilicus.
Gastroschisis
protrusion of intraabdominal contents through a defect in abdominal wall lateral to umbilical ring; there is never peritoneal sac.
Encopresis
involuntary overflow of incontient stool causing soiling or incontinence secondary to fecal retention or impaction.
Hematemesis
vomiting of bright red blood or denatured blood from GI tract or from swallowed blood from nose.
Hematochezia
passage of bright red blood per rectum, usually indicating lower Gi tract bleeding.
Melena
passage of dark-colored, "tarry" stools resulting from denatured blood, suggesting upper GI tract bleeding or bleeding from right colon.
Dysphagia
difficulty swallowing caused by abnormalities in the neuromuscular function of pharynx or by disorders of esophagus.
Cleft Lip results from
failure of of the maxillary and midean nasal processes to fuse. CL may vary from small notch to a complete cleft extending into the base of the nose. Unilateral or bilateral. deformed dental structures
Cleft Palate results
is a midline fissure of the palate that results from failure of the two sides to fuse. Involved with soft and hard palates. When associated with CL the defect may involve midline and extend into soft palate on one or both sides.
Cleft lip and palate (CL/P)
are more common than CP alone.
ESSR Feeding
Modified nipple 1) enlarge the nipple 2) stimulate suck reflex 3) swallow fluid appropiately 4)rest when baby gives facial signal.
Isotonic Dehydration
Water and Salt are lost in equal amounts. FLUID LOSS IS FROM EXTRACELLUR FLUID COMPARTMENT
PRIMARY FORM OF DEHYDRATION IN CHILDREN
HYPOTONIC DEHYDRATION
ELECTROLYTE LOSS IS GREATER THAN WATER LOSS
•WATER MOVES TO INTRACELLULAR
•FURTHER INCREASES EXTRACELLULAR FLUID LOSS
HYPERTONIC DEHYDRATION
WATER LOSS IS GREATER THAN ELECTROLYTE LOSS
WATER MOVES FROM ICF TO ECF
INFANTS HAVE MORE FLUID IN ECF—BECOMES EVEN MORE DEHYDRATED
MOST DANGEROUS, REQUIRES SPECIFIC FLUID THERAPY
See ATI Children page 249
Hypotonic-
Hypertonic
Isotonic
Dehydration
Mild: slight thirst gravity 1.020

Moderate: cap refil 2-4 second, thirst irratablility pulse increased, mucus membranes dry, turger increased 1.020 gravity

Sever greater than: 4 seconds, tachycardia, orthostatic blood pressure, extreme thirst anterior fontanele. scant or urine
DIARRHEA
GASTROENTERITIS
STOMACH &
INTESTINE
ENTERITIS
SMALL
INTESTINE
COLON
COLITIS
INTRACTABLE DIARRHEA OF INFANCY
SYNDROME
OCCURS 1ST MONTHS OF LIFE
LASTS LONGER THAT 2 WEEKS
NO RECOGNIZED PATHOGENS
DIFFICULT TO TREAT
USUALLY DUE TO INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA
6-54 months
CHRONIC NONSPECIFIC DIARRHEA
IRRITABLE COLON OF CHILDHOOD
TODDLER’S DIARRHEA
Loose stools
Undigested food particles
Greater than 2 weeks
GROW NORMALLY
NO BLOOD IN STOOL
NO INFECTION

ETIOLOGY
CONTAMINATED FOOD, WATER
CLOSE CONTACT
Daycare etc
SPREAD FECAL –ORAL
PERSON TO PERSON
ROTAVIRUS
70-80% of INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA
NOSOCOMIAL
MOST SEVERE 3-24 MONTHS OLD
VACCINE
ATI Childresn
p 234
Moderate
Severe Dehydration
6-9%
> 10
TREATMENT
MONITOR FLUID & ELECTROLYES
REHYDRATE
MAINTENANCE FLUID THERAPY
REINTRODUCTION OF DIET
NONE of these if dehydrated:
NO:
CLEAR LIQUIDS
FRUIT JUICES
CARBONATED SOFT DRINKS
GELATIN
CHICKEN OR BEEF BROTH
BRAT DIET HOW COME
NURSING MANAGEMENT
TEACH FAMILY HOME CARE
VOMITING NOT A CONTRAINDICATION FOR ORT
MONITOR IV FLUID & ELECTROYTLE REPLACEMENT
MONITOR STOOLS
SKIN CARE
CONSTIPATION
ALTERATION IN:
FREQUENCY, CONSISTENCY
PAINFUL STOOLS
RETENTION OF STOOLS
IDIOPATHIC OR FUNCTIONAL CONSTIPATION
NO UNDERLYING CAUSE
ENVIRONMENTAL

PSYCHOSOCIAL
TRANSIENT
NEWBORN CONSTIPATION
MECONIUM PLUG reduced water content

•MECONIUM ILEUS abnormal meconium

Functional: Cystic
Organic: something outside
add fiber
Ie cystic fibrosis
Diahrreha Nursing Process:
page 823 Wong's
Introduction of new food
area high susceptibility
allergic
use of laxative
sorbitol and apple juice
deficient fluid volume related organisms.
impaired
monitor fluid loss
HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE
MECHANICAL OBSTRUCTION-
INADEQUATE MOTILITY
IN PART OF INTESTINE
ABSENCE OF GANGLION NERVE CELLS
DISTENTION, ISCHEMIA
ENTEROCOLITIS
NONBILIOUS VOMITING
high food chunks no bile
may be obstruction (but high)
BILIOUS VOMITING
atresia. malrotation, appendicitis. interssuption, lesion, hernia bile distal blockage
NURSING IMPLICATIONS
THIRST MECHANISM can guide fluid needs
REPLACEMENT FLUIDS
POSITION ON SIDE OR SITTING
BRUSH TEETH OR RINSE MOUTH AFTER VOMITING
INTAKE & OUTPUT
ANTIEMETICS PRN
GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX
PHYSIOLOGIC IN INFANTS
RESOLVES BY 1 YEAR
IF INFANT IS THRIVING & HAS NO RESPIRATORY COMPLICATIONS
NO TREATMENT IS INDICATED
GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE
p 827 wongs

UPRIGHT POSITION
AVOID SPICY, FRIED FOODS
WEIGHT CONTROL
MEDICATIONS
SURGERY
FUNCTIONAL ABDOMINAL PAIN DISORDERS
FUNCTIONAL ABDOMINAL PAIN
FAP
IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME
IBS
ABDOMNIMAL MIGRAINE-discrete, paroxysmal episodes of sever abdominal pain between which child is completely norma, aura, photophobia.

More common in winter months
IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME
ABD PAIN ASSOCIATED WITH BM’S
MAY ALSO EXPERIENCE:
DIARRHEA,CONSTIPATION, MUCUS IN STOOL,
SENSE OF INCOMPLETE EVACUATION etc
ACUTE APPENDICITIS
APPY MOST COMMON CAUSE OF EMERGENCY PED ABD SURGERY
AVERAGE AGE -10
PERIUMBILICAL PAIN, NAUSEA, RLQ PAIN, VOMITING WITH FEVER
PERFORATION CAN OCCUR 48 HOURS AFTER ONSET OF SYMPTOMS
APPENDICITIS
ISCHEMIA
ULCERATION
BACTERIAL INVASION
NECROSIS
PERFORATION OR RUPTURE
PERITONITIS
ILEUS
ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE
HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK

MCBURNEY’S POINT
AREA OF MOST INTENSE PAIN
IMPORTANT TO ASSESS TH
E SEVERITY OF THE PAIN
p830

APPENDECTOMY
nursing-up and moving p831-832
PERITONITIS AFTER RUPTURE
MECKEL DIVERTICULUM
CONGENITAL
FORMS DURING FETAL DEVELOPMENT
BOX 24-8 p 833---SYMPTOMS
PAINLESS RECTAL BLEEDING
ABD PAIN
SIGNS OF OBSTRUCTION
DARK RED, CURRENT BERRY STOOLS
SURGERY
INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASEs

TREATMENT
CHRON’S DISEASE

ULCERATIVE
COLITIS

CONTROL INFLAMMATION TO REDUCE THE SYMPTOMS
OBTAIN LONG-TERM REMISSION
PROMOTE NORMAL GROWTH &
DEVELOPMENT
ALLOW AS NORMAL OF A LIFESTYLE AS POSSIBLE

ANTI-INFLAMMATORIES
IMMUNOMODULATORS
ANTIBIOTICS
BIOLOGICAL THERAPIES
NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT—PREVENT GROWTH FAILURE
SURGICAL TREATMENT
ULCERATIVE COLITIS
INFLAMMATION LIMITED TO COLON & RECTUM
TOXIC MEGACOLON MOST DANGEROUS FORM OF SEVERE COLITIS
CHRON’S DISEASE
CAN OCCUR FROM MOUTH TO ANUS
TERMINAL ILEUM IS USUAL SITE
FISTULAS CAN FORM BETWEEN INTESTINE AND ADJACENT STRUCTURES
fistulas
PEPTIC ULCERS
ACUTE OR
CHRONIC
2X GREATER IN BOYS

GASTRIC OR DUODENAL

PRIMARYNO PREDISPOSING FACTOR
TEND TO BE CHRONIC
MORE FREQUENT IN THE DUODENUM
MORE COMMON KIDS OVER 6 YEARS
NO PREDISPOSING FACTOR
TEND TO BE CHRONIC
MORE FREQUENT IN THE DUODENUM
MORE COMMON KIDS OVER 6 YEARS
STRESS ULCER

primary- chronic secondary-stressSTRESS ULCER UNDERLYING STRESS OR INJURY
ie severe burns, sepsis, ICP, trauma
MORE FREQUENTLY ACUTE & GASTRIC
MORE COMMON KIDS > 6 MONTHS

ANACIDS
•HISTAMINE RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS(ANTISECRETORY DRUGS)
•PPIs—BLOCK ACID PRODUCTION
•MUCOSAL PROTECTIVE AGENTS
•BISMUTH COMPOUNDS-INHIBIR GROWTH OF BACTERIA
•SURGERY
H. PYLORI
SIGNIFICANT
PRESENCE IN
ULCERS
CIRRHOSIS
IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE
SCARRING
END STAGE LIVER DISEASE
LIVER TRANSPLANT
BILIARY ATRESIA
DESTRUCTIVE, INFLAMMATORY DISEASE
DESTROYS THE BILIARY TREE
JAUNDICE—1ST SYMPTOM
PPI

Mucosal

HIstamine blocker
prohibits hydrogen ion pumps in paritieal cells inhibitiing acid. Omeprazole

Bismuth compound-MAALOX

prevacid, pepcid, zantac, tagament
BILIARY ATRESIA
DESTRUCTIVE, INFLAMMATORY DISEASE
DESTROYS THE BILIARY TREE
JAUNDICE—1ST SYMPTOM

ABSENCE OF DUCTAL PATENCY
ABSENCE OF BILE DUCT REMNANTS

INFECTION (primary) or
IMMUNE

Stools lighter than expected.
dark urine
enlarged spleen and liver
poor fat metabolism
poor weight gain
failure to thrive

KASAI PROCEDURE-attach intestine to liver.
INTESTINE ANASTOMOSED
TO THE LIVER
CIRRHOSIS
LIVER FAILURE,
LIVER TRANSPLANT,
DEATH
Cleft Lip Feeding
vertical nipple
ESSR
syringe
some can be breastfeed

no pacifiers
tongue depressors
thermomenters
spoons straws
ESOPHAGEAL ATRESIA WITH

TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA
OCCURS AT 4TH WEEK OF GESTATION
CAN OCCUR WITH OR WITHOUT A TEF
MONITOR LUNG SOUNDS… ^ risk (crackles) if fluid of aspiration
HERNIAS
p 850
PYLORIC STENOSIS
SEE CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS BOX 24-13 PAGE 851
IE Weight loss
Visible peristalisis
REQUIRES SURGERY
INTUSSUSCEPTION
CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS
e red currant jelly like stools
TREAT
AIR, CONTRAST, BARIUM OR SALINE ENEMA
SURGERY

sudden acute abdominal pain
child screaming and drawing the knees onto the chest
child appearing normal and comfortable between episodes of pain
vomiting
lethargy
passage of red, currant jelly-like stools (stool mixed with blood and mucus)
TEnder, distended abdomen
palpable sausage-shaped mass in upper right quadrant
empty lower right quadrant (dance sign)
eventual fever, prostration, and other signs of peritonitis
ANORECTAL MALFORMATIONS
p 854
Persistent cloaca rectum, vagina, and urethra drain into a common channel that opens onto the perineum or genitourinary system.
CELIAC DISEASE
BOX 24-15 PAGE 856 TX GLUTEN FREE DIET