1. Signs and symptoms of some common childhood illnesses: Chicken pox- Chickenpox is a mild and common childhood illness that most children catch at some point. It causes a rash of red‚ itchy spots that turn into fluid-filled blisters. They then crust over to form scabs‚ which eventually drop off. However‚ even before the rash appears‚ the child may have some mild flu-like symptoms including: • feeling sick • a high temperature (fever) of 38ºC or over • aching‚ painful muscles • headache •
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children. 2.1 Identify the signs and symptoms of common childhood illnesses. Illness Sign and symptoms Chicken pox Child generally feels unwell to begin with and may have a temperature and will then develop red spots (mainly on chest and back to begin with). Spots may then spread to arms‚ legs and face. The spots then change and become more like a liquid filled blister. These will then dry out and become brown / red scabs. German Measles (rubella) First symptoms can be a slight cold / runny nose
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‘Physiological Disorders’ (unit 14). Summer work Assignment Physiological disorders‚ their nature‚ signs and symptoms The purpose of this assignment is to: Understand the nature of physiological disorders. Scenario: You have been asked by North Middlesex Hospital to create two information leaflets explaining the nature of two named physiological disorders and their signs and symptoms. The most successful way to achieve this is to create a separate leaflet for each chosen physiological
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INCUBATION PERIOD: 1-3 days The signs and symptoms of common cold are: Severe headache‚ Runny nose‚ Sore throat‚ mild temperature‚ Persistent crying & cough‚ Vomiting or abdominal pain. The treatment that a child can undergo to cure this illnesses: Treat the symptoms with antibiotics that were prescribing from the GP‚ Encourage the child to have an enough rest‚ encourage the child to drink plenty of
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illness on school campuses. Bergeron‚ Richardson‚ and Roetert note the importance of recognizing signs and symptoms‚ as well as how to respond to and treat emergencies. The authors discuss many ways in which teachers and parents may work together to help prevent children from suffering heat related illness during activities in hot weather. They emphasize the importance of detecting symptoms early as well as quick response to any possible emergencies. When warm weather approaches it is necessary
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and around 15‚000 are under the age of 65. If the dementia is recognised early enough that are a lot of things that you can be done to make the quality of life better. In a lot of dementia cases the symptoms and quality of life will progress and get worse over a number of years. The most common symptoms of a dementia patient are: * Forgetfulness‚ maybe forgetting names of people that you have been in contact with every day‚ or forgetting what you did just hours or days ago. * Having difficulty
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is an illness that causes symptoms to reappear in individuals who had recovered from polio decades earlier. After recovering from polio‚ some survivors find themselves afflicted again‚ facing a serious condition called post-polio syndrome. PPS is a condition in the nervous system that affects muscles and nerves. What are the symptoms of Post-Polio Syndrome? Symptoms of post-polio tend to show up in a patient gradually. There may be long periods of time when symptoms are stabilized and no sign
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The common signs and symptoms in the early stage of Krabbe Disease are; feeding difficulties‚ extreme irritability‚ declined alertness‚ muscle spasms‚ excessive crying‚ fever with no sign of an infection‚ loss of head control‚ frequent vomiting and delays in normal development. As the disease progresses over time‚ the symptoms become more intense; increased loss of hearing and sight‚ seizures‚ a stiff‚ fixed posture‚ increased loss of ability to breathe and swallow‚ stiff muscles and loss of developmental
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scientist discovered an illness called Nervous Exhaustion. Nowadays‚ the name of this disease has been changed into "Chronic fatigue syndrome. This syndrome is one of the most complicated disorder that may hit the nervous system of anybody‚ and it has symptoms‚ possible causes ‚ and some slightly treatments that may reduce the risk of this disease. National Health Organization classifies it as a dangerous disease and its main causes are not clear yet. (1) This disease usually hits elderly people‚ especially
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just found out that I have it this year and I do not know much about it so I wanted to do this paper on it so I could learn new things about it. POTS was Named and identified by Schondorf and Low in 1993. But the symptoms for this disease have been recorded as early as 1940. At first it was just thought to be migraines and they didn’t look into it much after that because there was no reason to if it was just migraines. This disease is most likely to be found in a
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