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How you ever experienced having a deadly disease?.Only 2 out of 10,000 get it, so it’s a pretty rare condition. Osteomyelitis is a bone infection that can be deadly if not treated quickly or if not treated correctly and if so, the infection will spread throughout your body and the only way to get rid of it and keep it from infecting more of your bones would be to chop off the infected bone(s). For example let’s say your finger got infected if not treated quickly or correctly it would spread upward towards your shoulder and the doctors would have to chop your arm off before it goes into your bloodstream. I was at Wisconsin with my family somewhere in the end of July and I cut my toe in the pool, thought it wasn’t a big deal so I kept on
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It took some effort and it was painful especially at night where I don’t do anything else but feel the pain in my toe. The throbbing in my foot became unbearable and I had kept putting off telling my mom about it because I absolutely hate doctors and needles. My toe had become a bit swollen so I told my mom, ¨Be careful next time.¨ and my mom thought it wasn’t really bad so she didn’t bring me to the doctors instead soaked my feet in salt water, which is known to help injuries, and applied iodine on the area and wrapped it …show more content…
It was a monday and my mom and I drove to my doctor, she was aghast at how the doctors treated our problem. She took x-rays of both my feet and compared them, ¨Her toes infected, the pus is way too close to her bones, I don’t like what I see...¨ She gave us a note to have an MRI appointment it’s like an x-ray but more detailed not just bones and it scans parts of your body thoroughly and throughout that you aren’t allowed to move or you’ll mess up the pictures and it’s a very long scan mine took about 40
OA is a musculoskeletal disease that causes chronic joint pain and reduced physical functioning (Laba, brien, Fransen, & jan, 2013). Osteoarthritis (OA) is a non-inflammatory disorder of synovial joints that results in loss of hyaline cartilage and remodeling of surrounding bone. OA is the single most common joint disease, with an estimated prevalence of 60% in men and 70% in women later in life after the age of 65 years, affecting an estimated 40 million people in the United States (Goodman & Fuller, 2009). Women are more commonly affected after the age of 55, almost everyone has some symptoms by the age of 70 (Tan, Zahara, Colburn & Hawkins, 2013, p.78). Osteoarthritis can be described radiological, clinical, or subjective.
Osteopetrosis is a rare, genetic disease that causes extremely dense and brittle bones. This is because individuals affected with osteopetrosis do not have normal osteoclasts, which bones need to work correctly. Healthy bones require properly functioning osteoblasts and osteoclasts. Osteoblasts are responsible for making new bones and osteoclasts are bone cells that are responsible for bone resorption, which is the breaking down of bones and providing space for new bone marrow to grow. An individual with osteopetrosis has osteoclasts that do not function properly, therefore their bones are not healthy (Stocks, Wang, Thompson, Stocks, & Horwitz, 1998).
Osteogenesis imperfecta is a group of genetic disorders that mainly affect the bones. The term "osteogenesis imperfecta" means imperfect bone formation. People that suffer from this condition have bones that break or fracture easily; also giving it its more well-known name “brittle bone disease”. These bone fractures often occur from mild trauma or even with no apparent cause. There are eight recognized forms of osteogenesis imperfecta, they range from type I to type VIII. The types can be differentiated by their signs and symptoms, although the main characteristic features overlap between each other. Type I is the mildest form while type II is the most severe form of Osteogenesis imperfecta; the other types of this
Osteomyelitis is an inflammation of the bone and bone marrow that can occur in any bone in the body, however, is more commonly seen in the long bones, the spine, and the foot bones of a diabetic. Osteomyelitis typically begins as an infection of the medullary cavity, quickly extends to the periosteum, and settles in the calcified portion of the bone. Even with the significant advances in diagnosing and treating these types of infections, long bone osteomyelitis still presents a variety of challenges and remains difficult to treat. The severity of the disease is staged depending upon the infection’s particular features, including its etiology, pathogenesis, extent of bone involvement, duration and host factors
Chronic osteomyelitis is an intractable infection of the bone associated with the destruction of bone tissues and vascular channels 1-4) . The destruction of vascular channels leaves a portion of dead and infected bone (sequestrum) detached from the adjoining healthy bone and surrounded by avascular soft tissue. Impaired vascularity prevents antibiotics to be delivered to the lesion viathe intravenous route. Therefore, chronic osteomyelitis cannot be eradicated without a radical surgical debridement of the sequestrum. Since adequate debridement is down to the living bone, the debridement can leave a large avascular dead space that must be managed to prevent infection recurrence before tissue reconstruction.
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I have enjoyed reading your post, Kerry. I found your comment on Osteomyelitis informative and thought provoking. As you have stated, Osteomyelitis is an infection of the bone that may start in the bone or may be a result of an infection that has started elsewhere in the body and traveled through the blood stream to the bone. Osteomyelitis may be difficult to treat as it is sometimes located deep in the bone. Osteomyelitis most likely affects long bones in children while affect the vertebrae in adults. Diabetics may develop osteomyelitis in their feet. Osteomyelitis may be difficult to treat; however, it may be treated successfully with strong intravenous antibiotics combined with surgery (Arias, Betancur, Pinzón, Arango, & Prada, 2015). Risk
Bones can become infected with Osteomyelitis through the blood stream by an open fracture or surgical wound. “Only two out of every 10,000 people acquire Osteomyelitis in a lifetime. The condition affects children and adults but in different ways. Certain conditions and behaviors can weaken the immune system increasing an individual’s risk of obtaining Osteomyelitis such a diabetes mellitus, alcoholism, hemodialysis, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS, sickle cell anemia, or a lack of blood supply (www.wedmd.com). In children, Osteomyelitis is usually acute and very easy to treat showing signs in the bones of the arms and legs. In adults, Osteomyelitis can also be acute or chronic and can persist due to a reoccurring medical
A) Bacteria commonly cause Osteomyelitis, but fungi and germs can also be the cause of the infection. Bacteria can spread to bone through infected skin, tendons, or muscles next to bone. Also, It may start in another region in the body and flow through the blood to the bone. Osteomyelitis can also infect people after they have bone surgery where metal rods or plates are put inside a bone. (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000437.htm)
“Joint pain, stiffness, and limited range of motion”. This is what occurs as a result of a chronic joint disease called Osteoarthritis (Arthritis). Osteoarthritis, or OA, is a common joint disease that can impact anyone. It is characterized by the decomposition of cartilage, changes in the bone structure, decline in quality of tendons and ligaments, and inflammation of the joint lining
According to the most recent evidence, there is a direct link between chronic inflammation and certain types of cancer. Inflammation generally occurs due to a bacterial or viral infection, such as a chronic bladder infection, which over time may be more susceptible to bladder cancer. This is especially true for individuals who are overweight or obese, or exhibit disorders like diabetes, hepatitis A and B, HIV/AIDS, and other bacterial/viral disorders.
Osteomyelitis is a bone infection and inflammation of the bone and bone marrow (Bontrager & Lampignano, 2014). For a normal human the bones are usually resistant to infections. However, bone infection can spread in a variety of ways; a severe puncture wound can catch a nearby infection and spread deep inside to the body, and can travel through the bloodstream and weakened part of a bone, can also occur with a direct contamination due to a broken bone. Two out of every 10,000 people have osteomyelitis; if the condition is left untreated the infection can become severe and can lead to blood loss in the bone, eventually death of the bone tissue. Today osteomyelitis is a treatable condition, for most people surgery is required to withdraw the dead parts of the bone from the body (Chihara & Lalani, 2012).