Anaphylaxis

Some people may experience asthma symptoms, such as wheezing, chest tightness and difficulty breathing. Symptoms begin within minutes of exposure to latex products; direct physical contact isn’t needed to trigger an allergic reaction. Anaphylaxis and severe asthmatic reactions have been caused by exposure to airborne particles of powder from latex gloves. Allergic reactions to latex are less common now, since many hospitals and health care workers have switched to non-latex gloves or low-protein…

Are you allergic to seafood? Anyone who has had a procedure done to them that needed iodinated contrast media has been asked this. Researching for an article has lead me to exam preparation guidelines and radiology manuals that say to ask whether the patient is allergic to seafood along with other allergies and even to go as far as asking if they are allergic to iodine specifically. The reasoning for this is that seafood is high in iodine. The fact of the matter is that iodine is an essential…

Food industries should have more respect when sending out food that could vastly affect a person’s life, such as meat recalls which may be the cause to 9,000 deaths a year in the United States due to foodborne illnesses.(McGrath) Cancer is another get cause of death leaving 595,690 people in the United States.(Cancer Facts and Figures) How is cancer related to meat recalls? Studies show a strong relationship between red meat consumed and cancer in people. But why? Red meat contains some…

• Identify the problem/concern: Prescription drugs have been marketed at an exceptionally high price across the country, making a high number of individuals and families unable to afford them. The costs of many lifesaving drugs have been sharply increased without any rational. Recently the cost of the medicine called Daraprim, used as the standard of care for treating life-threatening parasitic infection, was increased to $750 from $13.50, by the drug company the Turing Pharmaceuticals (Pollack,…

It is true, that the use of vaccines in modern immunisation programs has either eradicated or greatly reduced the incidence of certain diseases throughout the world. Vaccination programs work to not only reduce the chance of disease in the most susceptible individuals but also increase the immunity of the population. Such immunity is referred to as herd immunity. Herd immunity depends on a high proportion of individuals being immunised. When there are a large number of immune individuals in a…

Immunization: “the creation of immunity usually against a particular disease; especially treatment (as by vaccination) of an organism for the purpose of making it immune to a particular pathogen” (Merriam-Webster). This method of eradicating a disease has gone on for many years, dating back to the 1700’s, when Edward Jenner studied Cowpox and small pox immunity. Immunization first began in the United States in 1721 when a Puritan Minister Cotton Mather, encouraged smallpox vaccination in…

Vaccine Safety A mother with a 5 month old daughter had gotten her daughter 8 vaccines due to a doctor’s request. Two days later, her daughter had a seizure and the doctor said it was probably from a fever, although she never had a fever. He also stated that the seizure shouldn’t happen again. She had another seizure one day later and the doctor said the same thing again. The daughter was free of seizures for a little while. Since the seizures disappeared her mother took her to get more…

Children Should Be Vaccinated In the late 1700s, Edward Jenner, a doctor in England, inserts fresh cowpox lesion from a woman into a boy. After this experiment, the young man never contracts smallpox. The success of this preventive treatment created the idea of vaccination. This led to the development of vaccines for many other contagious diseases. Prior to the development of the measles vaccine, millions of Americans contracted the disease every year and thousands were hospitalized. (Kluger).…

In the united States, 95% of children at the kindergarten grade level have received vaccinations. However, the remaining 5% of children are the most dangerous disease spreaders. The remaining 5% are the children who cause the disease to spread (“The Unvaccinated” par. 3). Vaccines are essential to a growing child; they save lives, protect others’ lives around them by preventing spread of disease. Vaccines have nearly eradicated some of the deadliest and most feared diseases people have witnessed…

can present out of nowhere, and can often be deadly. The food that your child has eaten time and time again, may now be something they can no longer have, and one day may cause an allergy, presenting itself as a rash or in the worst cast scenario anaphylaxis. Parents may wonder what causes these allergies. Allergies starts when your immune system perceives a certain substance, possibly that of something quite harmless, as that as something it needs to send antibodies to destroy, and with this…