Batten’s Disease People cease to exist each and every day. With every passing minute‚ over one hundred people breathe their last and depart from this world. Death comes by many means: deprivation of food‚ war‚ epidemic‚ disease‚ and old age. Diseases are accountable for death in many people. A prominent family of ailments is neurological disorders. Batten disease is one subset of neurological disorders. Battens assaults its victims in the childhood years and eventually takes their lives
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Lyme Disease Chief Complaint: Parents report that their son has been febrile for a few days and “he has been rubbing his right ear off and on”. SUBJECTIVE: HPI: A six-year-old male patient was brought into the clinic accompanied by both parents (mother and father). They said there son was feverish over the last few days reporting the highest fever of a 100.1. Parents noticed him recently touching his right ear as if he had an ear infection. The mother treated her son with Children’s Tylenol
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The Lovely Bones Essay Readers will often think about characters long after a text has been finished. Analyse how the WRITER made a CHARACTER or characters MEMORABLE for you in a text you have studied. In The Lovely Bones‚ a provocative account of a young girl’s life and death‚ by Alice Sebold‚ we are thrust into the cruel reality of Susie’s mislaid youth. We are immediately introduced to the protagonist‚ Susie Salmon‚ “like the fish‚” who wastes no time in describing her brutal and gruesome
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Celiac disease. Celiac‚ unlike some other nutrition related conditions‚ is not preventable. Celiac disease is a gastrointestinal condition describing the intolerance to gluten. The causes of celiac are not certain‚ but there is a hereditary aspect in the people who suffer (Celiac Disease Foundation). Celiac brings upon a lot of dietary issues‚ but with a gluten-free diet one is able to live a comfortable lifestyle‚ like my friend is currently doing. Celiac disease is a digestive disease triggered
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Celiac disease is defined as an immune reaction to eating gluten which is a protein found in wheat‚ barley‚ and rye. When a person who has this disease eats anything that has gluten in triggers immune response that causes the small intestines to become inflamed. Over time this causes prevention of any nutrients being absorbed back into the body. The inflammation causes damage to the tiny hair like structures that are in charge of reabsorbing the vitamins and nutrients that the patient’s body needs
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Running Head: GRAVES’ DISEASE Graves’ Disease Graves’ Disease Graves’ disease‚ also known as toxic diffuse goiter‚ is the most common cause (80%) of hyperthyroidism in the United States (Rakel & Bope‚ 2008). Hyperthyroidism is a hypermetabolic disorder that occurs when the thyroid gland makes more thyroid hormone than the body needs (Nettina‚ 2006). Over activity of the thyroid gland leads to high levels of thyroid
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containing products that people without coleiac disease‚ take for granted. Although deemed as normal for most‚ these simple foods are not as nutritious or beneficial to people who have Coeliac disease. Coeliac disease pronounced (see-liac) is intolerance to wheat products‚ whereby gluten fights against the immune system causing damage to the lining of the intestines. According to (Coeliac UK 2001)‚ 125‚000 in the UK are faced with this condition. The disease is fatal in most cases and can have an
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Hodgkin Disease Alisa Bernal ITT Technical Institute GE259 Friday 16‚ 2015 Hodgkin disease‚ also known as Hodgkin lymphoma‚ is a cancer of the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system consists of the lymphocytes‚ which are part of the immune system. The lymphatic system has lymphoid tissues‚ lymphatic vessels and lymph. The lymphoid tissues can be found in bone marrow‚ tonsils‚ stomach‚ spleen and other organs in the body. Hodgkin’s disease can begin anywhere because there are so many
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Perception‚ Knowledge & Awareness of Coronary Heart Disease among rural Australian women 25 to 65 years of age – A Descriptive Study Rosanne Crouch Submitted for Master of Nursing Science‚ October 2008 Discipline of Nursing‚ The University of Adelaide Table of Contents Index of Figures……………………………………………………………………...iii Index of Tables ....................................................................................................... iii Signed Statement ..........................
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Heart Disease Many may or may not be surprised to know the number one killer in America for both men and women is heart disease. America has become increasingly over weight by over eating‚ eating unhealthy and not getting enough exercise. We have been alerted that each year we are becoming more and more obese at a alarming rate. Heart disease has been known to kill more people than any of the cancers combined by causing heart attacks and strokes. There are many causes to heart disease by choices
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