foot and trench fever. Trench foot is a disease which makes your foot turn blue or red and makes your foot very numb. It often involves blisters and open sores which allows fungal infections to enter. If the foot is untreated it can result into gangrene. Trench foot is caused by exposure to damp and wet conditions. In this case it was the soldiers walking bare foot in the wet trenches. This was bad for the soldiers because it delayed the time in which they could fight. Trench fever was a serious disease
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FIRST AID Animal Bites Treatment 1. Stop Bleeding * Apply direct pressure until bleeding stops. 2. Clean and Protect For a wound or superficial scratch from an animal bite: * Gently clean with soap and warm water. Rinse for several minutes after cleaning. * Apply antibiotic cream to reduce risk of infection‚ and cover with a sterile bandage. 3. Get Help * Get medical help immediately for any animal bite that is more than a superficial scratch or if the animal was a wild animal
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Intro to Microbiology: Gram stain: Gram + Gram - Exotoxin Except Listeria has endotoxin Endotoxin Except Capsules Strep pneumo VERY Dangerous: (Some Strange Killers Have Pretty Nice Capsules) 1. Salmonella 2. Strep 3. Kleibsiella 4. Hemophilus B 5. Pseudomonas 6. Nisseria-(largest capsule- most likely cause of any toxicity) 7. Citroacter Gram (+) Gram (-) N-acetyl muramic acid (Nam) + N-acetyl glucosamine (Nag) = Peptidoglycan wall Contains
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with my selecting the courses. So I declined his kindness. The very next day‚ I got a cough and it later turned out to be a four-day high fever. In those days‚ I was extremely weak and lay in bed all day long and hardly had any strength even to eat. I lost the power to keep an eye on the possible vacancies of the English courses ever since I got a high fever. I began to regret declining Aero＇s offer. Just at that moment‚ Aero called‚ asking about my health and told me to have a good rest‚ saying
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Symptoms of sepsis are usually nonspecific and include fever‚ chills‚ and constitutional symptoms of fatigue‚ malaise‚ anxiety‚ or confusion.[12] These symptoms are not pathognomonic for infection and may also be observed in a wide variety of noninfectious inflammatory conditions. In addition‚ they may be absent in patients with serious infections‚ especially in elderly individuals. Because systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS)‚ sepsis‚ septic shock‚ and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
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healthy bathed together. The baths were cleaned out about every two weeks‚ so those viruses were spread throughout the baths‚ multiplying every moment of the day. Many of the diseases spread in Rome were deadly‚ such as malaria‚ tuberculosis‚ typhoid fever‚ and gastroentitis. The most deadly diseases in Rome were affected by temperature‚ which causes seasonal plagues. The Fall of Rome Poor political Leadership Gracelyn Gutierrez Rome‚ originally quite small‚ was then a vast area‚ spreading from
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persons and compared with a random sample of half the available medical records for persons who had tested negative 31 of 67 persons -Among the 28 people who tested positive‚ illness onset occurred during August 26-October 6. -Symptoms included fever‚ headache‚ myalgia‚ and pharyngitis. -Three persons attended one school‚ six persons were employees of the hospital; no other common exposures were reported. Defensive measures against Mononucleosis -Wash hands frequently -Avoid close contact
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Medical Issues of WWI During World War I‚ there were many issues that surrounded the health of troops. The lack of medical advancement and the knowledge of it‚ then the struggle of keeping ones self-healthy throughout combat were key points to survival. During World War I in less than a year‚ American troops suffered more than 318‚000 injuries 120‚000 were counted as casualties. The front line soldiers are always at the highest risk in any war. With World War I though‚ trench warfare was a dangerous
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infection. Two of the most common viral infections it precedes is influenza‚ "the flu"‚ and chicken pox. A now-familiar warning on bottles of aspirin‚ most notably Tylenol‚ is not to give Tylenol to a child who is recovering from the chicken pox‚ a fever‚ or any other viral infection. The link between aspirin and Reye’s Syndrome and is not fully understood‚ but all reported cases of Reye’s Syndrome include a child who has received aspirin before infection. Symptoms of Reye’s Syndrome may
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surgery and the recovery of his leg that he bashed in a softball game. So they went down to Greenly Colorado for a pastor board meeting in February of 2003‚ but the family made it into a family vacation too. Before the trip Colton was running a high fever and was throwing up but right before the trip it stopped. That is a sign of the appendix bursting soon‚ but they did not know that. Then during dinner it came back and he was throwing up uncontrollably. They then rushed him to the doctor to find that
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