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What is 10-year old male with poor growth, poor appetite, recurrent chest infection and steatorrhea is likely to have ____________ . and explain in detail?
Cystic fibrosis features : GIT:chronic diarrhoes,steatorrhoea,pain abdomen,malabsorption,constipation,meconium ileus hepato biliary:fatty liver,jaundice,poal hypeension,hepatic failure,gall stones pancreatic:recurrent pancreatitis,dysfunction nutritional defeciency:vit defeciency,micronutient defeciency,failure to thrive recurrent and persistant pneumonia Analysis for sweat chlorides is a reliable diagnostic test.level of chlorides above 60 mEq/lis suggestive of cystic fibrosis Reference: GHAI Essential pediatrics, 8th edition