Oral ulcer

VENTILLATOR ASSOCITAED PNEUMONIA Hospital is an institution which provides medical and surgical treatment where nurses care patients in order to improve their health condition. Despite that sometimes, patients’ may develop infectious disease while receiving the health care facilities through various invasive procedures. Nosocomial infection is infection which is acquired in hospitals setting to the admitted patient which may come in sight after 48hours of admission or within 30days of…

this can occur due to several conditions i.e. irritable bowel syndrome, peptic ulcer, and pancreatitis, and as a referred pain of myocardial infarction among other minors ones. Diagnosis and treatment Peptic ulcer disease Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) is erosion of the gastrointestinal mucosa, usually in the stomach (gastric ulcer) or duodenum (duodenal ulcer). It is caused by excess secretion of hydrochloric acid or decreased…

Stress’s Relationship to Ulcers It has been a common thought that stress was a direct cause of ulcers (“Stomach and Duodenal Ulcers (Peptic Ulcers)”, n.d.). Ulcers were thought to have been initiated by an increase in stomach acid, which would eat away at the mucosa of the stomach or other areas of the digestive tract until a break in the mucosa was formed and the stomach wall was then exposed directly to the acid, causing pain. Stress was blamed because stress had been thought to increase…

problems, such as ulcers as the patient in question was diagnosed with a peptic ulcer and, some less commonly, stomach cancer. It is not clear why some people with H. pylori get these conditions and others do not (Crowe, 2017). A peptic ulcer is an open sore in the upper part of the digestive tract that typically causes the patient to have an upset stomach, abdominal pain, and also can cause internal bleeding. There are two main types of peptic ulcers; they are gastric ulcers that are…

According to Schraffenberger (2013), “Pressure ulcers or decubitus ulcers are caused by tissue hypoxia secondary to pressure induced vascular insufficiency, and they may become secondarily infected with components of the skin and gastrointestinal flora. The ulceration of tissue usually is at the location of a bony prominence that has been subjected to prolonged pressure against an external object, such as a bed, wheelchair, cast, or splint. Pressure ulcers may extend into deeper tissue including…

suffer with ulcers. Ulcers are sore which occurs on the external surface of the body and the internal surface of the body. The way ulcers are caused is by a break in the skin that does not fully recover or fail to heal. Treating of an ulcers can happen many ways depending on which type of ulcers are present. The most common ulcers are gastric ulcers, esophageal ulcers, and duodenal ulcers. Along with these three ulcers Pressure ulcers and Stasis ulcers are usually the popular ulcers when it…

had series of health conditions. Firstly, she suffered poliomyelitis from childhood and developed arthritis. She is not hypertensive, diabetic or asthmatic. She is a known valvular heart disease patient diagnosed 10 years ago, has glaucoma, peptic ulcer disease and a breast cancer survival. She has had several surgeries in the past including knee replacement and gall bladder removal. She also had cardiac valve replacements in 2006 and 2009 respectively, lumpectomy in 2010 and currently has an…

Metamorphosis Transformation can be described as a change over time, however, transformation isn’t the term I would use to define my sudden “change”. My alteration wasn’t as depraved as most individuals who had gone through possibly worse, however, my adjustment was my own, meaning I didn’t know how to handle the situation around that time, nor did I know that this was going to be a turning point in my life. I can confirm that my “change” was mostly like a metamorphosis. A metamorphosis, was my…

color it has when the bacteria is given the gram stain test. H. pylori usually has about six to eight flagella at one end of the bacteria. H. pylori infections are responsible for gastritis (inflammation of the stomach lining), and the majority of ulcers in someone’s stomach and small intestine. If not treated, gastritis can turn into gastric cancer or gastric MALT (mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue) lymphoma. H. pylori has a higher chance of affecting people who live in a developing…

Case Report: PK, a 34 year-old, Indian female, first presented to the Cornea and Contact Lens Department of the University Eye Care Center on October 18, 2016 with a chief complaint of dry eyes and blurred vision through her current glasses most prominent in the evening. Patient PK is a financial analyst that spends eight to ten hours on the computer each day. During her free time she enjoys going out with friends and running. PK reported a history of occasional soft contact lens wear with…