Chapter 22: Care of children and young people with endocrine problems
1. What is NOT a sign of DKA?
- Hyperglycaemia
- Hypoglycaemia
- Glucose in the urine
- Acetone breath
2. What causes hypoglycaemia?
- Not enough to eat
- Not enough insulin
- Too much insulin
- Physical exercise
3. What does NOT have an effect on growth?
- Parental heights
- Hormones from the pancreas
- Adequate nutrition
- Thyroid hormones
4. What is the most common reason for congenital hypothyroidism?
- Maternal thyroid hormones
- Iodine deficiency
- Panhypopituitarism
- Maldescent of the thyroid
5. Name a key sign/symptom involved in early puberty in girls
- Development of secondary sexual characteristics before the age of 8 years of age
- Growth delay
- Normal sex steroid levels in the blood
- Lack of menarche