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Every FMK condition
299 diseases, deficiencies, toxicities and drug mechanisms harvested from every FMK deck — the ones sprinkled through a single bullet as much as the ones with their own slide. Pick what you're given and what you have to name, or let it cycle; distractors come from the same category so you have to discriminate (hypoketotic vs. ketotic hypoglycemia, which GSD, which urea-cycle enzyme…). Every answer shows the whole card with the lecture and slide.
Heme · FMK 08.4
Breastfeeding jaundice Acquired / not inherited
Defect / target: Inadequate milk intake in the first week of life
Mechanism: Poor intake reduces stooling and increases enterohepatic reabsorption of bilirubin, exaggerating the normal physiologic pattern.
↑ Accumulates: Unconjugated bilirubin· ↓ Deficient: Caloric/fluid intake
Presentation: Exaggerated jaundice in the first week of life in a poorly feeding breastfed infant
Labs: Unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia
Treatment: Improve feeding frequency/intake
Breastfeeding jaundice = early, not enough milk; breast milk jaundice = later, something in the milk
Learn the mechanism: Heme degradation & bilirubin (jaundice) →
FMK 08.4 Heme Metabolism · slide 29