Buhle, a single mom with a seven year old daughter wants to open her own interior decorating business. She has inherited R1 million from her late grandmother and wants to use R100 000 of this money to start the business. Her suppliers have agreed to extend her credit totalling R500 000.

Question 1

a. Buhle is not sure if she should become a sole trader or go to the expense of registering a company. Advise her based on the above facts.

Question 2

What is the difference between a submandibular salivary gland swelling

and swelling of a salivary lymph node?

Question 3

How does Barrett's oesophagus develop?

Question 4

Is it recommended to treat asymptomatic endoscopically diagnosed

reflux oesophagitis with acid suppression and/or antireflux

measures?

Question 5

Is it recommended to give a young patient, diagnosed endoscopically to

have mild reflux oesophagitis, life-long proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) to

prevent the development of Barrett's oesophagitis?

Question 6

Is it safe to give a patient with reflux oesophagitis who is on proton

pump inhibitors (PPIs) for treatment of acid suppression, aspirin in

antiplatelet doses (75-325 mg per day)?

Question 7

Does a combination of magnesium and aluminium hydroxide salts,

taken as antacid for reflux oesophagitis, have serious long-term adverse

effects? 33

Question 8

In the treatment of reflux oesophagitis with a proton pump inhibitor

(PPI), should the PPI be life long or given for 4-8 weeks, as mentioned by

the drug manufacturers?

Question 9

Would a patient who suffers with reflux oesophagitis as a result of a

hiatus hernia, and who is not responsive to proton pump inhibitors

(PPIs), benefit from a highly selective vagotomy?

Question 10

1. What are the causes of belching and what appropriate drug can be

used?

2. What are the effects of smoking on the gastrointestinal tract and what

is its role in peptic ulcer disease?

Question 11

Dear authors, why are gastric ulcers more common along the lesser

curve, near the pylorus of the stomach?

Question 12

What is the best time of day to administer omeprazole, and why?

Question 13

Is it safe to use the drugs omeprazole and ranitidine during pregnancy?

Question 14

Are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs harmful to the stomach when

taken parenterally, for example by intravenous or intramuscular routes?

Question 15

Is it safe to give a patient with a past history of bleeding peptic ulcer

aspirin in an antiplatelet dose of 75-325 mg?