Question

"A client with Addison’s disease has fluid and electrolyte loss due to inadequate fluid intake and to fluid loss secondary to inadequate adrenal hormone secretion. As the client’s oral intake increases, which fluids would be most appropriate?"

Answer 1

Answer:

Chicken broth and juice

Explanation:

Addison's disease is the name given to the condition in which the adrenal glands (also called adrenal glands) are unable to produce sufficient amounts of their hormones. This disease causes fluid and electrolyte loss due to inadequate fluid intake and secondary loss of inadequate adrenal hormone secretion, and may cause muscle weakness, fatigue, weight loss, decreased appetite, darkening of the skin, diarrhea, among other symptoms. .

Treatment for Addison's disease basically involves hormone replacement therapy to correct the levels of steroid hormones that the patient's body is not producing. However, due to the extreme fluid loss that the patient has experienced, it is recommended that he/she consume low calorie liquids that do not expand in the body and have a certain level of nutrition such as chicken broth and juice.