Conjunctivitis

trachomatis that causes various diseases such as trachoma, inclusion conjunctivitis and nongonococcal urethritis. Chlamydial infections are spread by either direct contact or by inhalation of aerosols. C.trachomatis is spread by direct contact with infected secretions. Humans that are infected act as reservoirs. Engelkirk mentions it is also “spread by flies serving as mechanical vectors”…

Know Your Body - Eyes Introduction The eyeball lies in the cavity of the orbit. The eye is acted upon by muscles, blood vessels and nerves. The structure of the eye ball has been depicted in the following diagram. Fig: Structure of human eye What is making up of the eye? Conjunctiva: It is a mucous membrane which covers the under surface of the eye lids and is reflected form the eyelids to cover the anterior part of the eyeball up to the margin of the cornea. The three layers (see the diagram…

Another odd instance of chlamydia is conjunctivitis; touching one’s eye with a contaminated hand will lead to this. It should be noted that it cannot be spread by toilet seats, as this was a questionable form of contracting the disease. As previously acknowledged, it is a sexual transmitted disease (for the most part, omitting conjunctivitis) and a latex condom is the main form of protection against the disease. One of the reasons chlamydia…

The most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States is chlamydia and the disease may cause serious damage to an individual’s body (Pommerville, 2014). Many individuals are usually unaware that they are a carrier of the disease due to unnoticeable symptoms. Chlamydia may be passed through vaginal, oral, or anal sex, and may me passed from mother to her fetus. No individual is immune to this sexually transmitted disease. Knowing the characteristics of the microorganism, the…

may be native, like an allergic reaction that occurs due to the eye makeup, or more general, like hay fever. Allergies that includes the membrane which lies the inside your eyelids and which covers the whites of the eyes are known as allergic conjunctivitis. Causes- Allergic reactions arises when the eye surface comes…

The different genera are based on different intracellular inclusions, susceptibility, composition and disease production. C trachomas causes infections in the eye, genitalia, or respiratory tract. These include trachoma, inclusion conjunctivitis, lymphogranuloma venereum, urethritis, cervicitis, salpingitis and pneumonitis. Most of the time this disease is underreported because people can go months to years before they realize that they have been infected. The problems and devastating…

Cystic fibrosis is the most common, life threatening autosomal recessive disease within the Caucasian population. It is an inherited disease caused by the mutation of a single gene on chromosome 7. Both males and females can be affected by this disease, however, it is not contagious. Around 70% of individuals with cystic fibrosis inherited the disease from not only one, but both their parents. There is over one thousand different mutations of the cystic fibrosis gene, which means that there may…

Mahmoud IbrahimM.C., a 23-year-old woman, has developed a skin rash as well as nausea and vomiting, aftertaking an antimicrobial drug for a short time. The skin rash is red and quite itchy and isspreading over her entire body. The physician stops the medication because of this allergicreaction. The patient has a history of skin rashes, both eczema and contact dermatitis, sinceinfancy. She has had hay fever during the summer and fall for the past few years.1. Why would the physician consider this…

prescription of Nexium to treated the acidic material that he chokes during the night which helps. At this time, the patient denies fever, chills, cough, head ache, sore throat, blur vision or eye pain. Per Dr. Brinkley the patient was treated for conjunctivitis with Vigamox,…

Reactive arthritis consists of the triad of arthritis, conjunctivitis, and urethritis known as Reiter’s syndrome. ReA commonly affects at aged 20-40 years by 1-4 weeks following a gastrointestinal or genitourinary infection. The manifestations of ReA are usually acute and present with fatigue, fever and malaise. Asymmetrical oligoarthritis is the main symptom, localized in the large joints of the knees, ankles and feet. 1 In 50% of the patients have low back inflammatory pain, worse during the…