Cystitis

Overtime, sulfa drugs were produced in greater quantities as the understanding of the properties of sulfur helped increase the usage to help fight off bacteria to prevent infections. In the most recent years of 1930s, SMZ was created to help fight cystitis and other urinary infections caused by bacterial infection. Sulfa drugs were very popular in the early 1900s due to the fact that it proved effective when used on patients. Its early discovery of this useful drug has helped popularized when…

Genital Herpes (Hawkins, J., et al, 2014) Primary Infections can present multiples lesions in both males and females. It is most commonly seen in the male’s penis, buttocks, thighs and females’ labia, fourchette, cervix, buttocks, thigh, nipples. -Myalgia -Arthralgia -Malaise -Fever, lymphadenopathy -Dysuria on both males and females -Dyspareunia -Headaches (can be a sign of Herpes Meningitis) If this is a recurrent genital lesions- it is less painful, no systemic symptoms , unilateral and will…

The urinary system consists of two kidneys, two ureters, a bladder and a urethra. The kidneys are bean shaped structures that filter blood and collect waste to form urine. The ureter which are like two tubes carry the formed urine to the bladder which hold the urine until it has been expelled through the urethra. A urinary tract infection is an infection which can happen anywhere along the tract. Most infections usually occur along the lower tract however it can spread to kidneys which can be…

hydornephrosis and kidney stones. Now, the lower urinary tract infection can include your bladder and your urethra since we know this from basic anatomy. The infection in the urethra is also known as urethritis. The infection ins the bladder is known as cystitis.” The symptoms for either of these types of infections can be as follows: increase in urine, urgency to go, pain or burning when you go, dark or urine with an odor, pelvic pain, cloudy urine, and even blood in your urine.” Treatment for…

action it can’t be used alone for treatment of serious, life threatening diseases as it needs to be used in combination with itraconazole or fluconazole. Minor infections that isn’t life threatening can be treated with just flucytosine eg: candida cystitis. But in life threatening fungal infections usually a combination of…

Description of the Activity: I am doing my clinical rotation on 5 West, which is an Oncology/ Infection disease Medical- Surgical floor. Just like any other Med Surgical floor the staff to patient ratio is not ideal. Nurses take up to seven patients and the patient care techs (PCT) take 10 to 15 patients. It gets hard for the staff to provide patients with the best care possible when they are so short staffed. This past week I was responsible for two of my own patients while helping my nurse,…

prevent recurrent infection • Patients should empty the bladder as they feel the urge • Patients must wipe from front to back after using the toilet • Patients should void before and after intercourse Pharmacologic Treatment for Acute Uncomplicated Cystitis : [7]…

disease/infection that I have chosen is the urinary tract infection, commonly known as the UTI. Depending on where the infection occurs, there are two specific names. If the infection occurs in the lower part, like in your bladder, it is called Cystitis. If the infection travels up towards your kidneys, it is called Pyelonephritis (Umm/Health). The microbe that causes this infection is Escherichia coli, more commonly known as E. coli. It is found commonly in healthy people and normally not…

Diseases affect both human and animal populations. The epidemic is worse in a wildlife case scenario. This is because the animals are scattered in the wild. It is hard to account for the infected animals. Furthermore, it is even harder to avail treatment to the infected animals. Wildlife is very important to our ecosystem. Besides, they are a tourist attraction. Therefore, wildlife must be protected from extinction. Australia continent is very famous for koalas. Koalas are very…

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