Research Paper On Illness In Childhood

Billy is a 3 year old little boy who until recently has been a happy, playful child. He is presenting with malaise, fever, and what appears to be tiny, red blisters in his mouth and throat and beginning on his hands and feet that are painful to the touch. His mother states that he has felt bad for a couple of days and now doesn 't want to eat or drink. He is also complaining of a "tummy ache". He attends a daycare with 10 other children. His mother states that she had been "looking things up on on the internet" and thought Billy at first had the flu. Upon assessment, he is diagnosed with Coxsackie virus, also known as Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease. As Billy 's mom discovered in her internet search, "Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease" is just one of many infections that can cause mouth sores. Often a search for the symptoms of basic medical conditions can lead people to content on more serious illnesses, therefore increasing their fears that something tragic is occuring. Billy 's mom was afraid that her son had not the flu, but something much more serious. His diagnosis of Coxsackie however, relieved her

people are vaccinated and health or medical care is less accessible. Pertussis infects a large number of people yearly, and in part have killed many. Schools are also a place of concern for uninfected children to become infected. According to ("Old college try applying", 2015) schools and day cares have had the most concentrated number of cases of pertussis. Preventative measure are imperative so that children do not get the disease.

Due to certain beliefs, lack of education, socioeconomic status, the environment in which people live, and even gender gaps, all have a significant impact on the lives of children and everyone surrounding them. Many children are dying due to infections that are out of their control and their families need to be more educated on signs and symptoms, along with the benefits of vaccinations and getting the proper care for their sick children. These problems occur in other places around the world but are more common in

The CDC, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, states that the best thing you can do for your child is to vaccinate them. Without vaccinations, there are 16 diseases an adolescent could acquire that eventually, could become fatal. Simple sicknesses for adults, the common cold for example, can be deadly for those infants without vaccinations. Medical Doctor, Denia Varrasso, states that “vaccinating your child is as important as buckling them into their car seat.” Having a baby in general is a life changing event that can cost an arm and a leg but, vaccinating your child actually saves you money in the long run. Receiving the vaccine will prevent you from missing work because of your responsibility to take care of your sick child. Unfortunately,

A 1-year old male baby, has enrolled into a daycare facility. The parents of this baby, reported that the daycare employees documented the daily diaper changes, the child’s whereabouts and environment placement. The baby showed signs of painful, red, blister-like lesions on the tongue, the buttocks and irritability. The baby had a slight fever prior to the daycare visit.

I agree with these people. In my opinion Indian residential schools should all be closed and banned, the children returned to their homes, because of the negative effects that residential schools have on the children. I have visited Lejac Residential School in Fraser Lake, British Columbia, to check things out for myself. The school, as similar to many other residential schools, operates on a half day system. The children spend half the day in the classroom and half the day at work.

Immunisation plays a key role in averting grave diseases from spreading. Up until the middle of the last century, large numbers of babies and toddlers died before their third birthday because of catching various infectious diseases, together with tuberculosis, typhoid and diphtheria. others lived the illness but were left with long-term disabilities, including deafness. The breakthrough in stopping deaths in early childhood came with the use of antibiotics, better-quality hygiene and living conditions but also because vaccines were established which gave children immunity to the diseases. Vaccines work by giving the body a safe form of the disease so that the body’s immune system can develop antibodies to protect itself. These antibodies mean

Viruses can have a negative impact not only children but a whole population: “500,000 children still die each and every year from measles” (Allman 3). Measles are also called rubeola, it is a contagious respiratory infection, it causes a skin rash over the entire body. The symptoms fairly similar to the flu, including a fever, cough, and runny nose, although it is very rare in the US there are only 20 million cases filed each year. The virus lives in the nose and throat mucus of an infected person. It spreads through coughing and sneezing. The virus can live up in the air up to two hours in an airspace where the infected person coughed or sneezed or spread any of their germs. While illnesses are getting spread around it could lead to more

A vaccination/immunization is given to children and adults which help to stimulate their immunity by making antibodies (Immunizations 2011). The antibodies made fight against viruses or bacteria that can cause serious diseases, leading to severe impairment or death in some cases (Immunizations 2011). With the aid of vaccinations/immunizations we eradicated small pox, eliminated measles, chicken pox, H. influenza, Bordetella pertussis, tetanus and many more (World Health Organization 2017). This accomplishment was met with many praises and hopes that this would help eliminate unnecessary death from these diseases in childhood. In present time, we have now faced the certainty that some of the diseases we thought were eliminated have reemerged. To try and figure out what is the cause and how this happened would require lots of investigative studies which will not be done in this paper. This paper will focus on getting immigrant children immunized against these deadly diseases thereby eliminating this as being one of the causes of this reemergence.

Researching the common skin diseases in daycare and preschool is shocking on how many diseases there are. I have read a few articles on how parents think daycares don’t care about our children and how their children have come home with many different colds, sores, or rashes. The three I choose to research and discuss is hand-foot-mouth, impetigo, and fifth disease. Fifth disease and impetigo are highly contagious and common in children. Hand foot and mouth is a common virus in children causing a rash on the hands and feet and mouth

Although there are rules that children must be immunized in order to attend school, some parents are hiding behind cultural and religious laws to avoid getting their children immunized. In turn, this puts children who are not immunized at risk for preventable diseases because of the lack of herd immunity. Due to the absence of immunity, children are dying from preventable diseases at a steadily increasing rate. Since parents consider nurses to be one of the most trusted sources of information concerning their child’s health and well-being, we as nurses need to maintain a proactive approach in educating our society about immunizations and the importance of being fully

Chickenpox is one of them, this is a contagious illness that causes itchiness, rash, and red spots or blisters and it spreads all over your body. This is a virus is very common to get it in an early age that why children are the most common to get it. The chickenpox can be treated at home with lots of bed rest and medication prescribed from the doctor and for itching you can take a bath with oatmeal to calm down the itching. Diaper rash is one of my problems with my son. It is a rash that its cause by the diaper rubbing in his skin, not changing the diaper, and having stool for a long period of time in the diaper. What I usually do is put a rash cream to heal it or calm the pain and redness down.

There are several deadly diseases that could cause outbreaks and death of many individuals. For example, Hepatitis B causes severe damage to the liver and could cause death to a young child who is not vaccinated. Children who are vaccinated do not spend as much time being ill and at the doctor’s office as an unvaccinated

Parents argue that children are supposed to get sick. This is true, getting sick is a natural way that the body fights bacteria, however, we’re living in a different era where there are many diseases that are we are unaware of, international travel is more than frequently used, and our children are being exposed to these infections and diseases so

As parents there is a lot we can do to help protect our children from catching a cold or flu. But unfortunately that sometimes is not enough. Many people can transfer germs and viruses to your child, especially if their hands aren’t clean. Not to mention, if your child is enrolled in child care, they are at a higher risk of picking up a bug. Plus, with the holiday season here, family and friends at