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Induction of IgE antibody formation-initial exposure resulting in an immune response and subsequent exposure inducing a much stronger response?
Sensitization
Proteins that are capable of inducing IgE antibody formation?
Allergens
Characterized by extremely long intervals between defecation?
Obstipation
The infrequent passage of firm or hard stools or of small hard masses with associated symptoms such as difficulty in expulsion, blood-streaked bowel movements, and abdominal discomfort; frequency not diagnostic?
Constipation
Stool normally passed w/in 24-36 hrs after birth.
Meconium
Dietary patterns that exclude meat?
Vegetarianism
Used to successfully treat infants w/ isotonic, hypotonic, and hypertonic dehydration; the first line treatment for diarrhea and dehydration?
Oral re-hydration solution
Trace elements w/ a daily requirement of less than 100mg; exact role in nutrition unclear?
Microminerals
Constipation w/ decal soiling?
Encopresis
Fluid compartment, 40% of which is lost when a child is dehydrated?
Intracellular fluid
Elements w/ daily requirements greater than 100mg?
Macrominerals
Fluid compartment that constitutes over half of the total body water at birth
Extracellular fluid
Eliminates any food of animal origin, including milk and eggs?
Pure vegetarianism
Most restrictive of all types of vegetaianism, using brown rice as the mainstay of the diet?
Zen Macrobiotics
Excludes meat from the diet but allows milk, eggs, and sometimes fish?
Lactoovovegetarianism
Excludes meat ans eggs but allows milk?
Lactovegetarianism
What describes a change in quantity and occurs when cells divide and synthesize new proteins.
Growth
A qualitative change, describes the aging process or an increase in competence and adaptability.
Maturation
Refers to biologic process by which early cells and structures are modified and altered to achieve specific and characteristic physical and chemical properties.
Differentiation
Involves change from lower to a more advanced stage of complexity.
Development
The five major developmental periods, are?
prenatal, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and later childhood (pubescence and adolescence).
Proceed in predictable patterns of direction, sequence, and pace?
Growth and development
What are The directional trends in growth and development
cephalocaudal, proximodistal, and mass to specific.
Physical development includes increase in?
height and weight and changes in body proportion, dentition, and some body tissue.
The three broad classifications of child temperament are the?
easy child, the difficult child, and the slow-to-warm up child.
children learn about their world and how to relate to objects, people and situations through?
Play
Play provides a means of development in the areas of ?
sensorimotor and intellectual progress, socialization, creativity, self-awareness, and moral behavior; it serves as a means for release of tension and expression of emotion.
Growth and development are affected by variety of conditions and circumstances, including?
heredity, physiological function, gender, disease, physical environment, nutrition, and interpersonal relationships
Childrens vulnerability and reaction to stress depend to a large extent on their?
age, coping behaviors, and support system
The highest incidence of this type of hepatitis occurs in preschool and school age children?
Hep A
Immunity by HBV vaccine is available
Hep B
Non-A, non-B w/ transmission through the fecal-oral route or w/ contaminated water?
Hep E
Children w/ chronic HBV should be tested for this type of hepatitis?
Hep D
The major route of infection in children is mother to infant transmission?
Hep C
Incubation period 14 to 180 days; average 50 days?
Hep c
A set of skills and competencies peculiar to each developmental stage that children must accomplish or master in order to deal effectively w/ the environment?
Developmental task
An increase in competence and adaptability; aging; most often used to describe a QUALITATIVE change?
Maturation
Specific ways in which children deal w/ stress?
Coping strategies
The process by which early cells and structures are systematically modified and altered to achieve specific and characteristic physical and chemical properties?
Differentiation
The process by which developing individuals become acquainted w/ the world and the objects it contains?
Cognition
A special class of individual reactions to stressors?
Coping
term used by Freud to describe any sensual pleasure?
Psychosexual development
Behaviors exhibited by both children who are abused and those who are depressed?
Signs of stress
According to Chess and Thomas, a term as the manner of thinking, behaving, or reacting that is characteristic of an individual; the way in which a person deals w/ life?
Temperament
The rate of metabolism when the body is at rest?
Basal metabolic rate (BMR)
The universal medium in which children learn about their world and how to deal w/ their environment?
Play
The most accurate measure of general development; the radio-logic determination of osseous maturation?
Skeletal age