Fecal Analysis
Cards (252)
- Early detection of GIT bleeding
- used to check stool samples for hidden blood
- Positive indicator for occult blood test
- uses antibodies to detect blood in the stool
- excessive amounts of fat in your poop
- Ova
- complex carbohydrates of stool
- diarrhea watery stool shed
- Produces bile for emulsification of fats
- storage of bile
- what does pancreas produces?
- help maintain normal levels of fluid inside our cells
- Enzyme that helps digest proteins in the small intestine
- Enzyme hat breaks down proteins into individual amino acids in the small intestine
- enzymes that catalyze the cleavage of amino acids
- Proteolytic enzymes
- carbohydrates to glucose stored in
- Diarrhea should have stool weight
- Frequency of diarrhea
- Diarrhea duration in acute case
- Duration of diarrhea in chronic case
- Mechanism of diarrhea
- due to bacterial, viral and protozoal infection, increasing secretion of water and electrolytes
- large intestine is impaired
- could also be due to use of laxatives, hormones, neoplasm, and certain drugs
- due to incomplete breakdown or reabsorption of food
- consider tumor, maglinancies, intake of metformin
- also known as maldigestion or malabsorption
- Ex: Lactose intolerance, celia sprue, and poor absorption of sugars
- receives almost completely digested food from the cecum, absorbs water and nutrients, and passes waste (stool or feces) to the rectum
- seen in irritable bowel syndrome
- nerves and muscles of bowel are extra sensitive
- can be bloating, increase flatus, diarrhea, or constipation
- most severe: presence of _
- causes enterotoxin-producing organism
- causes maldigestion
- active solutes remain in the lumen
- surgical procedures
- Increased intestinal hypermotility