Scarlet fever

Scarlet Fever is an illness that can develop from strep throat and usually affects children between the ages of five to fifteen (Mayo Clinic, 2011). This disease is able to be controlled with the use of antibiotics, but only if it is recognized and interpreted correctly. When recognized by the combination of symptoms, medical help should be reached. If left untreated, scarlet fever could lead to many other complications throughout the body. Scarlet Fever was once a dangerous illness, but knowing

You have a fever of 102 degrees or higher. It hurts to move, because you have a sandpaper-like rash, it feels as almost youre burning from the inside out. You have side effects like nausea, vomiting, headache, swollen glands, body aches, and even the horrible ¨strawberry tongue¨. This sickness is definitely something you would pay money for to never have again, as this is very serious and not something to take lightly. This is know as the Scarlet Fever. In the 1800s, the scarlet fever was basically

Disease: Scarlet fever B. Scarlet fever is an acute and communicable disease. The symptoms associated with scarlet fever are a red rash that feels like sandpaper, a sore throat, and a high fever. It is a disease that mainly affects children who are 5-15 years old, but “anyone can get scarlet fever.” (CDC, 2017). Scarlet fever is acquired “through a bacterial infection caused by group A strep” (CDC, 2017). This group A strep is the same bacteria that causes strep throat (CDC, 2017). The fever is acquired

Pediatric Exanthems Patient #1 1. What is your diagnosis? Shelly’s diagnosis is scarlet fever. 2. What causes this medical condition? Scarlet fever is mainly caused by the erythrogenic toxins of group A beta-hemolytic Streptoccus pyogenes (Andrey & Posfay-Barbe, 2016). 3. How would you treat this patient? Penicillin for 10 days is the first line treatment for scarlet fever (Firth, 2016). In addition, analgesics may be used for fever and pain management. For patients allergic to penicillin, azithromyhcin

called Scarlet Fever. Scarlet fever is an infection caused by streptococcus. This caused a sore throat, fever, and a very red rough rash that started in the torso area and would soon spread over the entire body. Scarlet fever mainly targeted children from the age of four to the age of eight. But anyone can get Scarlet fever. It would almost look like the person infected had been badly sunburnt. The tongue and lymph nodes would also become very swollen after the person had caught Scarlet fever. Scarlet

Introduction to Environmental Health: Communicable Disease-Scarlet Fever Introduction: Scarlet fever, also known as scarlatina, is an infection caused by Group A Streptococcus bacteria (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016). It is spread from human to human through inhalation of droplets from the sneezing and coughing, eating or drinking using the same cutlery or glass, or through direct skin contact of an infected person (Duncan, 2015). Group A Streptococcus bacteria are often found

Scarlet Fever By: Rachael Zabkar In Frankentstein, a gothic novel written my Mary Shelley, scarlet fever was a huge part in the main plot line. Scarlet fever was a common disease during the time Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Scarlet fever was particularly common in children and was fatal and deadly. It was a disease that affected many children and hat many sympotms, causes and stages (Bunch 54). In the modern world we live in with modern medicine it's not as common, however, back then if you

Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem Massachusetts. His father died of yellow fever when he was 4 years old and left behind a wife and 3 children. Hawthorne was raised by an abnormal and solitary mother. “He had a leg injury at a young age, which left him not being able to move for months (Biography)”. His leg injury, on the other hand, did not get in the way of what he was dreaming of doing growing up. During the time of his leg injury, Hawthorne developed an

Due to the description of the disease, Scarlet fever seems to have been dated back almost 2,500 years even back to the time of Hippocrates. Supposedly there has been 3 major epidemics of Scarlet Fever. The first uncontested account of scarlet fever came in 1553 similar to measles, diphtheria and other rashes however some say it was seen as early as 430 B.C. Scarlet fever brought about a death rate then as high as one hundred and fifty out of one hundred thousand, which is a very morbid death rate

In Frankenstein, scarlet was relevant because during Frankenstein’s times it was considered a very dangerous disease. Scarlet fever is what killed Victor’s mother. With her death so dies Victor’s moral compass and allows him to loose himself in his work without ethics or morality. Scarlet Fever Scarlet Fever is an infection caused by a streptococcus bacterium. It can be transmitted through the air or by physical contact. It primarily affects children between four and eight years of age. In temperature