Alimentary Disorders

Learning Task
1. Patient come to clinic with chief complain vomiting and abdominal pain.
a. According to those symptoms, please mentioned some possible diseases
b. Please mentioned any questions or other anamnesis needed to make the
working and differential diagnosis
c. Please mentioned any laboratory testing needed to support the diagnosis.
2. After conducting anamnesis and physical examination, if you suspect the patient
suffering from gastrointestinal bleeding, :
a. To support this diagnosis, what kind of examination that you will suggest
to the patient ?
b. What kind of preanalytical factor that you will explain to the patient in
order to get an accurate result of that examination ?
3. Can we know whether there is a GI bleeding or other disease, and differentiate
location of bleeding from the change of stool color ? Please explain your answer.

Self Assessment
1. In order to get an accurate result, please mention how to collect the stool
specimens
2. There are two steps in stool analysis. Please mention it.
3. A change in stool color can provide information about pathologic conditions,
organic dysfunction or intake of drugs. Please mention it.
4. What is the indication of occult blood test ?
5. Please mention some principal of occult blood test.