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What to Do If Your Child Has a Fever By Shannon Weeks | Submitted On January 09, 2012 Recommend Article Article Comments Print Article Share this article on Facebook Share this article on Twitter Share this article on Google+ Share this article on Linkedin Share this article on StumbleUpon Share this article on Delicious Share this article on Digg Share this article on Reddit Share this article on Pinterest Expert Author Shannon Weeks I recently came across an article(i) on a very popular

Philippines in the 1950’s and in the 80’s cases began to crop up in Latin America and the Caribbean. (cdc.gov/dengue/epidemiology) Dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever are caused by a family of four similar viruses that have been appropriately dubbed; dengue 1-4. (cdc.gov/dengue/epidemiology) The insect vector

Disease: Scarlet fever B. Scarlet fever is an acute and communicable disease. The symptoms associated with scarlet fever are a red rash that feels like sandpaper, a sore throat, and a high fever. It is a disease that mainly affects children who are 5-15 years old, but “anyone can get scarlet fever.” (CDC, 2017). Scarlet fever is acquired “through a bacterial infection caused by group A strep” (CDC, 2017). This group A strep is the same bacteria that causes strep throat (CDC, 2017). The fever is acquired

Yellow fever is a viral hemorrhagic fever that exists in South America and Africa. The virus is typically acquired through a vector, commonly the mosquito. 3 Stages of Symptoms: Stage 1: fever, muscle pain (myalgia), nausea, vomiting, dizziness Stage 2: improvement of symptoms from Stage 1, fever reduction Stage 3: return of fever, nausea, vomiting, bleeding, organ failure, and yellowing skin (jaundice) Effect on Body: Upon reaching the liver, the virus destroys liver cells which causes the liver

sick with a high fever, the pulse rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure are typically elevated above normal ranges. It is very common for diseases that cause a fever to also present with an increase in blood pressure, and pulse rate. When there is a high fever, but a person’s heart rate is below the expected value it is known as relative bradycardia. This is clinically important because there are a few diseases that often present with such a condition, one of them is typhoid fever.  What is your

Exanthems Patient #1 1. What is your diagnosis? Shelly’s diagnosis is scarlet fever. 2. What causes this medical condition? Scarlet fever is mainly caused by the erythrogenic toxins of group A beta-hemolytic Streptoccus pyogenes (Andrey & Posfay-Barbe, 2016). 3. How would you treat this patient? Penicillin for 10 days is the first line treatment for scarlet fever (Firth, 2016). In addition, analgesics may be used for fever and pain management. For patients allergic to penicillin, azithromyhcin or clarithromycin

Q fever is a disease caused by infection with Coxiella burnetii, a bacterium that affects humans and other animals. This organism is uncommon, but may be found in cattle, sheep, goats and other domestic mammals, including cats and dogs. The infection results from inhalation of a spore-like small cell variant, and from contact with the milk, urine, feces, vaginal mucus, or semen of infected animals. Rarely, the disease is tick borne. The incubation period is 9–40 days. Humans are vulnerable to Q fever

Typhus Fever and its Effects on Humans The purpose of this paper is to discuss a disease called Typhus fever, it is caused mainly by bacteria called Rickettsia typhi or R. prowazekii, in an article from AJN online website, James A. Dolce, M.D. writes about the American scientist, Howars T. Ricketts, who identified them and who also died of typhus fever while he investigated the way in which the infection spreads, hence the name Rickettsia, in his honor. The disease is transmitted by ectoparasites

Fever in children is a typical side effect of various restorative conditions, most strikingly irresistible maladies. In spite of not being characteristically risky, it can cause uneasiness in parents and caregivers alike, and it is one of the main reasons why parents look to medical care. Evidence-based guidelines reliably express that the side effect of fever does not require treating and, therefore, the point ought to be to distinguish those children with a serious ailment and heightened comfort

This disease which was pretty much just an amplified flu virus causes aches, headache, vomiting and high fever. Pneumonia had an extremely high kill rate. With no knowledge of how it's contracted or spread, it wiped out the confederate army and some of the Union as well. Typhoid was another major bacterial virus that was almost untreatable. The typhoid fever started small and is extremely rare to this day. It is spread by shared food or water and causes a large irritating rash