Patient X is a 10-month-old infant whose mother has brought him to the pediatric clinic because of the following: vomiting, diarrhea, poor feeding, and jaundice. Examination of the infant demonstrates hepatomegaly and edema. Diet recall by the mother indicates that she has been advancing the baby's diet, supplementing baby formula with baby cereals, vegetables, fruits and juice, and most

Question

recently, some meat. She has noticed that the baby seems to not like the fruit and juice. Which metabolic disorder does this infant most likely have?
a. Hereditary fructose intolerance
b. Glycogen storage disease type 1
c. Galactosemia
d. Methylmalonic acidemia

Answer 1

a