Laboratory 1: Digestion Lecture & Case Study Thanksgiving Dinner Distress Braude
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Laboratory 1: Digestion Lecture & Case Study Thanksgiving Dinner Distress Braude, S., Goran, D., and Maxfield, S. 2011. Case Studies for Understanding the Human Body, 2nd Edition. Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers. pp 33-36. Frank's family had a full table for Thanksgiving dinner, including aunts, great aunts, uncles, and cousins he barely knew. Luckily. Frank's favorite cousin, Colin, a thirty-five year old software engineer working for a toy company in an exotic overseas location, flew in just for Thanksgiving. ano tyas entertaining everyone with his stories of the amazing foods he had eaten over the past few Colin was happy to be home months Finally. Thanksgiving dinner was served: turkey. gravy, spinach casserole, sweet potatoes, stufting cranberries, lots of good wine, and Aunt Rita's Jell-O mold for dessert Just after coffee. Colin doubled over in pain clutching his abdomen. He said that this had been happening more frequently over the past few month, but he had never felt this bad. His mother wanted to take him to the hospital, but he refused and just wanted to lie down on the couch. Meanwhile, Frank's relatives started debating their own diagnoses 1. Aunt Sally said that she was sure that Colin had an ulcer. What exactly is a stomach ulcer? Explain normal digestion and protection of the stomach and how this fails in the case ofa stomach ulcer 2. What evidence supports Aunt Sally's diagnosis? 3. Once Colin is feeling better, what questions could Aunt Sally ask Colin to help figure out if she is correct? Cousin Carol said that she was sure that Colin was suffering from lactose intolerance. She had the same problem so was careful to avoid certain foods. What is lactose intolerance? Where in 4. the gastrointestinal tract do you usually digest lactose, and why is the pain in a different location from where lactose would be digested? 5. What evidence supports Carol's diagnosis? 6. Once Colin is feeling better, what questions could Carol ask Colin to help figure out if she is correct? Of course Cousin Linda threw in her two cents by declaring that Colin's problem was a gall stone. Linda knows that gallstones are formed in the gall bladder and are too large to pass through the bile duct. But she is not sure what bile is or why gallstones only cause pain after certain kind of meals. Help her explain. 7. 8. What evidence supports Linda's diagnosis? 9. Once Colin is feeling better, what questions could Linda ask Colin to help figure out if she is 10. Rick, Colin's 15 year old brother, was sure Colin picked up some weird parasite from eating all correct? that raw fish. Explain how gastrointestinal parasites are likely to be acquired. What are some symptoms associated with these parasites? 11. What evidence supports Rick's diagnosis? 12. Once Colin is feling better, what questions could Rick ask Colin to help figure out if he is 13. Colin has been listening to the family discuss his health for the past hour. He sits up and tells the correct? family that he is careful to avoid fat and milk in his diet and the last time he felt this bad followed a great meal of spicy Szechuan beef and Hunan duck in hot bean paste. But because nothing tonight was fried, he is surprised that he had pain again. Who is most ikely to have correcthy diagnosed Colin's problem? Explain your reasoningExplanation / Answer
1. Stomach ulcer occur due to painful sores take place in lining of stomach and layer of mucus get reduced that provide protection to stomach from the digestive juice. Stomach ulcer is also known as gastric ulcer.
Digestion is breakdown of bigger biomolecules into water soluble form in order to get readily absorbed. In normal digestion, mucus lining is present in stomach that give protection to stomach from the gastric juice which is acidic in nature. But in case of ulcer, this lining become thin and lining of stomach get painful sores.
2. Pain clutching in his abdomen support aunt Sally’s diagnosis.
3. Question can be ask “if she ia having the pain every time she eat the food”.
4. Lactose intolerance is the unability of a person to digest the milk sugar which is lactose. The lactose digestion occur in small intestine with the help of enzyme lactase. Pain is in abdomen where lactose digestion occur in small inteste.
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