attacks the body by spreading through your respiratory system. This means that your nose, throat, bronchial tubes and lungs are affected. As well as your immune system which is trying to fight the flu off. Symptoms of Influenza, are similar to any cold, but on a much larger scale. Symptoms include having fever/chills, cough, sore throat, runny or blocked nose, muscle aches, watery eyes, fatigue and diarrhea, (which is more common in younger children.) People who have influenza can have these symptoms
people will die. Prior to the introduction of a vaccine chicken pox infected around 4 million people each year with around 150 deaths (CDC 2015).The Symptoms of chicken pox include an itchy red rash that may have open lesions, or crusted over wounds, fevers, sore throats and headaches (Better Health Victoria 2016). However Complications of the common chicken pox are what make it deadly. Complications can include dehydration, excessive bleeding, inflammation within the brain, pneumonia, bone infections
pneumonia occurs only in the lobar form. An increasing number of viruses are being identified as the cause of respiratory infection. Half of all pneumonias are believed to be of viral origin. Most viral pneumonias are patchy and the body usually fights them off without help from medications or other treatments. Pneumococcus can affect more than the lungs. The bacteria can also cause serious infections of the covering of the brain (meningitis), the bloodstream, and other parts of the body. Community-acquired
Answer 1. Understanding contraindications with post-operative surgery and surgical stress responses in patients with pre-existing diseases or conditions, is the key pathogenic factor to understand. Post-Surgical stress responses include: Pain, Nausea, Hypoxemia, Muscle loss, Immobilisation and Sleep disturbance etc. Increase on the demand of organ functions and activation of other biological responses in the body, is the result of post-operative surgical stress. These changes due to stress on body
includes all those medicines which are not in POM (prescription only medicines) or GSL (general sales list), and includes all medicines made in a pharmacy for retail sale under the exemptions from licensing granted to retail pharmacies. For examples: Paracetamol, Antibiotic eye drops etc. 3) GSL- General Sales List Those medicinal products which in the opinion of the appropriate minister can with reasonably safety be sold or supplied otherwise by or under the supervision of a pharmacist. The policies
to be common in children. | Usually recognised by the painful swellings located at the side of the face under the ears (the parotid glands), giving a person with mumps a distinctive "hamster face" appearance. Other symptoms include headache, joint pain and a high temperature. | ‘Mumps is caused by the mumps virus, which belongs to a family of viruses known as paramyxoviruses. Paramyxoviruses are a common source of infection, particularly in children’Taken from http://www.nhs.uk/ConditionsMumps is
another which in this case; the insects. These diseases can be transmitted to human through various ways, and one of them: mosquito bites. Therefore, in this paper, I will further discuss on four major vector-borne diseases; Filariasis, Malaria, Dengue fever, and Lyme disease. I will begin my discussion on Filariasis. Filariasis which also known as Lymphatic Filariasis, is spread from an infected human (the carrier of the disease), to other healthy human by mosquitoes. This disease caused by a type
which are caused by bacteria. Most of the time the body’s immune system can fight off bacteria but in cases in which the body cannot antibiotics are used to destroy them. Antibiotics are either given orally, applied to the skin in ointment form or injected, this all depends on the type of infection the body is currently trying to fight off, for example skin infections are treated with ointment, oral antibiotics are used to fight of moderate infections and injective antibiotics are most commonly used
L, whom the group will be referring to all throughout the case presentation, is one of the patients handled by the group. He is three (3) years old and residing at Malaubang, Ozamiz City. Four (4) days prior to admission, patient had fever. His fever was accompanied by coughs and chills. Although the mother noted no watery stools, Patient L had two (2) episodes of vomiting. On January 29, 2009, Thursday, at about 9:30 in the evening, Patient L was brought to the hospital. His mother took
community-acquired pneumonia. Other pathogens that may cause pneumonia are Haemophilus influenza and Mycoplasma pneumoniae. (Schmitt, 2011) Many clients with pneumonia may have flushed cheeks, bright eyes, chest or pleuritic pain or discomfort, myalgia, headache, chills, fever, cough, tachycardia, tachypnea, and sputum production. Severe chest muscle weakness may also be present. Crackles or wheezes are heard upon auscultation. (Ignatavicius, 2006) Some people have an underlying problem which increases