Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Weight Loss
- Malingestion
- Can't eat or won't eat?
- Dental damage
- Oral Neoplasm
- Foreign Body
- Psychic
- Anorexia
- Stress Induced
- Neoplasm of satiety centre in hypothalamus
- Maldigestion
- Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency
- Cowpat like, grey, greasy diarrhoea
- Possibly coprophagia
- Tyrosine Lipase Insufficiency test
- Bile duct deficiency
- Needed to emulsify fat
- Brush Border Enzyme Deficiency
- Very likely to see diarrhoea
- Malabsorption
- Loss of SA
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Lymphangiectasia
- Pathological dilation of lymph vessels
- Poor fats + fatty vitamins absorption
- Lymphomas
- Bacterial overgrowth
- Hepatic Disease
- Right Sided Cardiac Disease
- Can cause oedema
- Very likely to see diarrhoea
- Malutilisation
- Most common cause if no diarrhoea
- Can cause:
- Cardiac Disease
- Look for murmurs
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Hyperthyroidism
- Diarrhoea can be present
- Neoplasm
- Kidney failure