Dry Tooth Dehydration Case Study

A 5 year old girl Jenny has presented to the Emergency Department with her mother, she is suffering from a variety of symptoms including wheezing and vomiting, a dry mouth, and a temperature of 39.7 degrees Celsius.
Vomiting is when the person is excreting all food from there stomach via the mouth using forces from the oesophagus and stomach (Hockenberry & Wilson, 2007). The rationale for choosing this symptom is that vomiting is a clear sign that the body is trying to get rid of a pathogen, with a large amount of vomiting the body is losing valuable nutrition and electrolytes, and will fail to function properly (Britt, 2007). If left untreated vomiting can cause children to lose a lot of fluids and become dehydrated (Van Rensburg, 2009).
|drinking enough water to help |symptoms and ensure the patient |and more saliva is being |
| |with the dry mouth |is comfortable |produced. |
|Provide some self care strategies to|So that teeth and gums are well |To prevent tooth decay |When a persons oral hygiene is |
|the patient about avoiding |cared for and patient can return| |back to normal and teeth and |
|carbohydrates and sweets between |to eating normal food once the | |gums look healthy (Bullock, |
|meals (Bullock, Manias & Galbraith, |symptoms are treated (Bullock, | |Manias & Galbraith, 2007). |
|2007) |Manias & Galbraith, 2007) | | |
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