Foreign Body Ingestion
This can cause alkaline caustic (liquefactive) necrosis and erode the esophagus. This object is circular.
What is a Button Battery?
If you treat ___ with antibiotics, you can trigger a surge of toxin release and greatly increase the risk of HUS
What is E. coli O157:H7?
One segment of the intestine telescopes into another
What is Intussusception?
Can detonate in two hours or play dead for days before striking
Hits hard like an acute stomach attack, then vanishes completely within hours as if nothing ever happened, leaving a completely healthy person behind
What is an Abdominal Migraine?
What is the most common ingested foreign body in children?
What is a coin?
You can get this from pet turtles and Guiana pigs
What is salmonella?
"forceful vomiting"
What is Pyloric Stenosis?
Most common underlying metabolic cause of kidney stones in children
What is hypercalciuria?
M694V is the most frequent and often the most severe mutation variant
What is Familial Mediterranean Fever?
If multiple are swallowed, they can attract across bowel walls, causing intestinal perforation
What is a magnet?
Only viral cause of severe diarrhea that has widely available, routine vaccines
What is Rotavirus?
Treated with the Ladd procedure
What is midgut volvulus?
Mimics internal organ trouble, but the pain screams loudest only when you press on the surface or move
What is a pulled muscle?
What is the likely diagnosis in a previously healthy individual that presents with anxiety, irritability, and insomnia, as well as abdominal pain and paresthesias of the right hand?
Acute intermittent porphyria
These can expand significantly when hydrated and can cause esophageal or intestinal obstruction
What is a superabsorbent toys (e.g., water beads)
Can be contracted through drinking out of a stream on a hiking trip
What is giardia?
A tiny, useless leftover tube turns on its owner and decides to trap bacteria.
What is appendicitis?
Commonly caused by a spiral-shaped bacteria
What is a stomach ulcer? (H.Pylori)
Hyperglycemia >250 mg/dL, blood pH <7.30 and serum bicarbonate <18 mEq/L, ketones
What is DKA?
These are often radiolucent, making plain radiography unreliable; low-dose CT may be needed for diagnosis
What are plastic toys?
Double-stranded DNA virus that affects the respiratory, GI and eyes
What is Adenovirus?
Abdominal distension and tenderness occur, abdomen might be tympanic to percussion, multiple air-fluid levels on xray
What is a small bowel obstruction?
Under microscope: transmural and non-caseating granulomas
What is Crohn's disease?
Protrudes through the deep inguinal ring and inguinal canal
What is inguinal hernia?