Meningitis and torticollis are two homeostatic imbalances that affect the human body. This essay will give background information, treatments, signs and symptoms, and their connections to the specific systems they affect.
Meningitis is the swelling of the meninges due to bacterial infections. It can cause things like convulsions, delirium, and in worst case scenarios death. With an early checkup and diagnosis, some modern medicine, and cautionary measures, the death rate stands in between 5 percent and 15 percent. The first recorded outbreak of meningitis in Geneva in 1805. Disease experts at the time; Gaspard Vieusseux and Andre Matthey in Geneva, and Elisa North in Massachusetts, named this major epidemic meningitis. These major outbreaks …show more content…
Torticollis is described on the direction of the movement like nodding up and down for yes or shaking your head side to side for no. Torticollis can cause someone to constantly face the floor o tilt their head and put strain on the neck if the person tries to look straight. The Birmingham Mummy from the Graeco-Roman period is the first finding of torticollis. He was hit in some tissue around the neck by an arrow. The wound got infected amd caused a muscle spasm that then caused the torticollis which wasn’t fixed before he was mummified. Torticollis is just a symptom of other diseases or homeostatic imbalances. It is normally found during or directly after birth. Every one out of three kids’ heads tilt to the side. Plagiocephaly is an disease in 80 percent to 90 percent of kids with this …show more content…
The massages loosen the muscles that are normally affected. The muscular system is affected by this imbalance. The muscles are tensed up and stop the neck and head from moving. Homeostasis doesn’t affect torticollis but it does affect meningitis. Meningitis is affected by homeostasis because it stops the disease from spreading. If this disease were to spread throughout the rest of the brain people with this disease wouldn’t think and would just die. The muscular and nervous system work together by keeping each other safe. The nervous system tells the muscular system when it’s in pain and needs to relax and the muscular system covers the nervous system so it doesn’t get damaged. The main structures of the muscle system are skeletal tissue, smooth tissue, and cardiac tissue. The main structures of the nervous system are the brain, spinal cord, and the nerves around the brain and spinal cord. The function of the muscle system is to help the body move and get around, while the main function of the nervous system is to help the body feel pain, pleasure, and help keep the body in a safe
Meningitis is the swelling of the meninges due to bacterial infections. It can cause things like convulsions, delirium, and in worst case scenarios death. With an early checkup and diagnosis, some modern medicine, and cautionary measures, the death rate stands in between 5 percent and 15 percent. The first recorded outbreak of meningitis in Geneva in 1805. Disease experts at the time; Gaspard Vieusseux and Andre Matthey in Geneva, and Elisa North in Massachusetts, named this major epidemic meningitis. These major outbreaks …show more content…
Torticollis is described on the direction of the movement like nodding up and down for yes or shaking your head side to side for no. Torticollis can cause someone to constantly face the floor o tilt their head and put strain on the neck if the person tries to look straight. The Birmingham Mummy from the Graeco-Roman period is the first finding of torticollis. He was hit in some tissue around the neck by an arrow. The wound got infected amd caused a muscle spasm that then caused the torticollis which wasn’t fixed before he was mummified. Torticollis is just a symptom of other diseases or homeostatic imbalances. It is normally found during or directly after birth. Every one out of three kids’ heads tilt to the side. Plagiocephaly is an disease in 80 percent to 90 percent of kids with this …show more content…
The massages loosen the muscles that are normally affected. The muscular system is affected by this imbalance. The muscles are tensed up and stop the neck and head from moving. Homeostasis doesn’t affect torticollis but it does affect meningitis. Meningitis is affected by homeostasis because it stops the disease from spreading. If this disease were to spread throughout the rest of the brain people with this disease wouldn’t think and would just die. The muscular and nervous system work together by keeping each other safe. The nervous system tells the muscular system when it’s in pain and needs to relax and the muscular system covers the nervous system so it doesn’t get damaged. The main structures of the muscle system are skeletal tissue, smooth tissue, and cardiac tissue. The main structures of the nervous system are the brain, spinal cord, and the nerves around the brain and spinal cord. The function of the muscle system is to help the body move and get around, while the main function of the nervous system is to help the body feel pain, pleasure, and help keep the body in a safe