Communicable Disease * Keep in mind all have fever‚ swollen LN‚ rash etc. Scarlet Fever: * Cause: Group A beta Hemolytic Streptococcus * Spread via direct contact/droplet * May lead to RF * Uvula/pharynx beefy red; tonsils have white exudate‚ pinpoint lesions on palate * Sandpaper rash * Pastina Sign: hyperpigmentation at joints * TONGUE (white furry white strawberry strawberry ) * So throat culture if they have strept/sore throat *** Anybody with a sore throat
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References • http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hereditary+disease • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathogen • http://www.preservearticles.com/201101032353/deficiency-diseases.html • http://www.who.int/chp/working_paper_growth%20model29may.pdf • http://www.drugs.com/condition/pneumonia.html • http://www.medicinenet.com/diabetes_treatment/article.htm • http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/asthma/treatment.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemophilia
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Celiac disease affects approximately 1-2% of the general population1 and is a serious genetic autoimmune disease that attacks any gluten that enters the body and intern damages the villi and mucosa in the small intestine‚ which affects absorption of nutrients from food1‚2. This damage to the small intestine can lead to malnutrition1‚2. Gluten is a protein that is found in barley‚ wheat‚ oats and rye1‚2. Since gluten is in many foods‚ this disease will greatly affect people’s diets‚ and lead to changes
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Can you imagine being on a gluten diet? Well if you have Celiac disease you will no longer be able to eat anything like pizza‚ wings‚ candy and burgers. Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder that can occur in genetically predisposed people where the ingestion of gluten leads to damage in the small intestine. It is estimated to affect 1 in 100 people worldwide. Two and one-half million Americans are undiagnosed and are at risk for long-term health complications. Gluten is a protein found in wheat
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Introduction Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is often a much too frequent complication of allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplants (BMT). Bone marrow transplants are given to treat malignant and nonmalignant diseases such as leukemia‚ lymphoma‚ marrow failure also known as aplastic anemia‚ metabolic disorders‚ HIV‚ Inherited red cell disorders (Gratwohl‚ 2006). Bone marrow can be taken from umbilical cord blood‚ peripheral blood stem cells and from bone marrow itself from various donors. They can
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of Celiac Disease Simply put‚ celiac disease is an absorption disease that occurs when the body is unable to digest gluten and has an autoimmune response (Green & Jones‚ 2010‚ p.2‚ 19). Gluten is one of the many different proteins found in large quantities in wheat and other members of the triticum family - durum wheat‚ kamut‚ spelt‚ and einkorn. Barley and rye have a close relation with the triticum family and also contain gluten (Wangen‚ 2009‚ p.26). In order to have celiac disease‚ one must
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Analyzing a Popular Magazine and a Scholarly Journal for the Study of Birth Month and Lifetime Disease Risk When we ask people for their birthdays‚ some reasons may be because we are wondering how old they are‚ when we should buy them gifts‚ or we have a plain curiosity about what their zodiac signs are. Most of us do not intend on figuring out how their birth months might predict the kinds of diseases that they could develop over their lifetimes. However‚ in an online article on Discover Magazine
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Correlation Between Vitamin D Deficiency and Parkinson’s Disease Trisakti University of Medicine I Made Setiadji 030.09.114 Jakarta‚ June 14th 2012 Abstract A majority of Parkinson’s disease patients had insufficient levels of vitamin D. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common form of neurodegeneration in the elderly population. In PD‚ one’s levels of dopamine are lowered because the nerve cells which make the chemical have either died or lost their usual functioning. Clinically
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“COMPARE AND CONTRAST” – ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE /HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE This is a compare & contrast assignment between Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Huntington’s disease (HD)‚ which was formerly known as Huntington’s chorea. It will be discussing and providing the similarities and differences between the two disorders. This essay will be demonstrating the differences and similarities by way of talking about the aetiology‚ pathology and pathophysiology of the two diseases; also how they present themselves
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introduction Non-infectious diseases (also called Non-communicable diseases) are those diseases that are not caused by a pathogen and cannot be shared from one person to another. Disease caused by these organisms are infectious diseases. There are many kinds of non-infectious diseases. Non-infectious diseases may be caused by either the environment‚ nutritional deficiencies‚ lifestyle choices‚ or genetic inheritances. Unlike infectious diseases‚ non-infectious diseases are not communicable or contagious
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