KROK 1 2007 – Question 124 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A newborn child with pylorostenosis has often repeating vomiting accompanied by apathy, weakness, hypertonicity, sometimes convulsions. What disorder form of acid-base balance is it?
- A. Gaseous alkalosis
- B. Nongaseous alkalosis
- C. Gaseous acidosis
- D. Excretory acidosis
- E. Metabolic acidosis
Hint
Think about which acid is lost with the gastric juice when vomiting keeps recurring, and what that loss does to the pH of the blood.
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