lives in a great safe environment. II. My daughter Ava has lived with being sick for 6 years‚ throughout this time and dealing with her illness it has taught me the importance of patience with children and adults of all ages. A. Ava has chronic Asthma and Allergies that affect her in all aspects of everyday life. 1. Ava has to take several medications and breathing treatments every week. 2. She can’t do everyday things that other children do like running‚ sleepovers. B. I tried
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until he took up the pipe. Then he tried smoking and it reduced his bronchitis by far and reduced his cough. He claims that he is sure he would be dead long ago if he hadn’t taken up smoking. In the old days smoking was prescribed to patients who had asthma but now it has gone out of fashion. More allergies are developed in non-smokers or people who give up smoking than smokers. Many severe bronchitis patients find that their first cigarette of the day clears their lungs and get rid of all their sputum
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CASE STUDY A 49years old white male present to the emergency room complained of choking while eating dinner at the nursing home he resides. He has a significant past medical history of traumatic brain injury‚ Asthma‚ Pneumonia‚ seizure disorder and Spasm quadriparesis. Patient denies shortness of breath‚ chest pain and fever‚ family history is noncontributory. On Physical examination patient is well nourished‚ no signs of distress‚ alert and awake and the vital signs reveal * Blood pressure
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rather common‚ and they transpire during every season. Mold allergy symptoms include congestion in the nasal area‚ eye and skin sensitivity‚ and wheezing. More severe reactions to mold may include a fever and breathing problems. Mold is also behind asthma and other disorders of the respiratory system. People who are allergic to allergens in the air like dust are more likely to develop a sensitivity to mold.
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COPD COPD is characterized by airflow limitation that is poorly reversible. Cumulative‚ chronic exposure to cigarette smoking is the number one cause of the disease‚ but repeated exposure to secondhand smoke‚ air pollution and occupational exposure (to coal‚ cotton‚ grain) are also important risk factors. Chronic inflammation plays a major role in COPD pathophysiology. Smoking and other airway irritants cause neutrophils‚ T-lymphocytes‚ and other inflammatory
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diseases (such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema) by 12 to 13 times. And those are just some of the health risks from smoking cigarettes. Not only does it affect your heath but if you are smoking around others such as children it can increase asthma and other breathing issues‚ and it increases there chance of being a smoker once they grow older. Second hand smoke causes an estimated 46‚000 premature deaths from heart disease each year in the United States among nonsmokers. Nonsmokers who are
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lung disease that makes it hard to breathe. COPD refers to two lung diseases‚ emphysema‚ and chronic bronchitis and is an obstruction to breathing that decreases air exchange in the lungs. Emphysema does not always coexist with chronic bronchitis. Asthma‚ Pulmonary Fibrosis‚ or Pulmonary Hypertension is not diagnosed as COPD. Some people may think they simply have a "smoker’s cough" or that breathlessness is just a part of getting older. It may be nothing serious or it may be an early symptom of
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ageing. Free radicals are believed to be involved with many degenerative diseases like osteoarthritis‚ atherosclerosis and heart diseases‚ to name a few. The most useful parts of this plant are its leaves. The extracts and juices of such are used for asthma‚ dyspepsia‚ chronic coughs‚ bronchitis‚ and rheumatism. Ear aches have also been proven to be cured by the infusion prepared from its leaves. The leaves relieve painful swellings‚ boils‚ and sprains‚ when their poultices are applied directly to the
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Melissa Galindo English 96 Marc Scott OCT/5/2014 Hitting them hardest when they’re small The Shame of the Nation was written in 2005 by author Jonathan Kozol. In this book he discusses how underprivileged children in lower-income school districts are treated differently than the children in middle-class school districts. The middle-class children have easy access to pre-school but very few children in the lower-classes have access to pre-school. As a result‚ when lower-classes
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BRONCHIOLITIS Andrea Jimenez La Guardia Community College SCL 114.4173 Name: Andrea Jimenez Date of Assignment: Thursday‚ January 20 2014 Directions: Utilize format in preparation for your clinical case study and submit to your clinical instructor. You will be required to present the case study orally during pre and post conferences. Client Initials: E.S. Client Age: 11 months Primary Diagnosis: Bronchiolitis‚ RSV positive 1) Define the etiology of the diagnosis
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