Question

1. Which of the factors contributes most prominently to an infants vulnerability to dehydration? why?

A) Infats body weight is composed of great porpotions of fat

b) Infants basal metabolic rate is lower

c)signifcant lower percentage of a infants total weight is water when compared to older kids

d) infants have a high rate of water turnover

2. For Hepatitis , why would you test for Vitamins A,D,E levels? whats the significance?

Answer 1

1 d Infants and young children have a higher metabolic turnover of water,because of a higher metabolic rate ,if losses are not replaced rapidly imbalance can occur.

2Low levels of Vitamin D are associated wih high levels of Hepatitis B virus replication.Vitamin D helps maintain a healthy immune system and there is evidene of its role in inflammatory and metabolic liver disease

.A progressive drop in serum retinol levelsis detected in patients with Hepatitis.A high prevalence of inadequate intake of Vitamin A is observed in all stages of chronic liver disease.

Vitamin E improves the aminotransferase status of patients suffering from viral hepatitis C.it has antioxidant properties ,resultingin the protection of liver damage by oxidative stress.