bacteria that live in the mouth and throat of an infected person and cause a sore throat, fever and chills. If diptheria is not properly diagnosed and treated, the bacteria can produce a toxin that causes serious complications such as heart failure and paralysis. About one person in 10 dies. Diphtheria used to be a major cause of childhood illness and death. It is spread from person to person through sneezing, coughing, or even breathing. Through the 1920s about 150,000 people a year got…
affected in the form of tachycardia, increases cardiac output, cardiomegaly and possible atrial fibrillation. Some people may experience dyspnea and an array of musculoskeletal symptoms ranging from weakness and fatigue to localized or generalized paralysis. Also, a person may become seriously ill if the hyperthyroidism escalates into a thyroid storm. Other symptoms include a change in menstrual cycles, erectile dysfunction or reduced libido, frequent bowel movements, bulging eyes or Graves’…
Parents Fears of Immunization for their Children Parents there are a lot of different opinions to rather or now vaccinate their children. Parents also do a lot of research regarding the vaccines. Being that vaccine are a preventative agent that helps protect from disease like smallpox, hepatitis, and TB test are weakened antibodies trying to make a defense for immunity to the disease that you may come in contact with. There are also many other immunization that parents need to research about…
unaware, FDR actually had polio weeks before this, “A crippling viral disease that would leave him paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of his life.” His family was adjusting to the fact that this was serious. A noted specialist in infantile paralysis, Dr. Robert Lovett brought him in to do an examination. He came to a verdict that he had polio. This was a big problem for Franklin and his wife, Eleanor. His family went back to New York hoping he would make a full recovery. His neck and…
tremendous harm to the patient. The medical professional made the Hipporatic Oath to do no harm to a patient. The medical professional is supposed to act with non-maleficence and perform procedures where benefits outweigh the costs. The amputation and paralysis procedures have numerous risks involved. For one, the procedure would be experimental. As researchers have found no direct cure for B.I.I.D., the procedure may not cure the patient, therefore the procedure is an experiment to hopefully…
should make adoption easier and find families for the animals. Instead of euthanizing the animals. I read a girl’s story, whose dog was rescued from a shelter that was high-killing in California. Her dog, Victoria, “She was suffering from back-end paralysis, has a severe deformity to her front leg likely due to congenital defect or malnutrition, and her body showed signs of having been used as a breeding dog for much of her life.” (4) Now with the proper care that she has given Victoria, she is…
Service dogs vs. coon dog What kind of dog would you want to have as a pet? Do you have health issues? Do you like the thrill of running after the dog when the tree? Well there are many reasons why a person has a coon dog, but there should only be one reason why you have a service dog if you are sick or have a condition that makes you unable to do stuff by yourself also it dependence on the person your health and you patients. My main topics are, they are both dominate and trainable but one…
Global Diseases Paper Global Health broadly includes cardiovascular, obesity, diabetes that are getting epidemic worldwide due to a variety of factors, some of which are connected to those that promote increased mortality from Global Infectious Disease (GID). Ischemic heart disease, stroke, lower respiratory infections and chronic obstructive lung disease have remained the highest killers throughout the past decade. Since the 1970’s new diseases have been identified at the unprecedented rate of…
In history, have you ever thought of the revolutions? If you haven't, There is 3 revolutions I'm going to talk about which are: the American revolution, French revolution and Latin America . Their goal is one of the major consequences they go through, but at last they meet their goal. They are also competitive with each other by sometimes getting in each other's way . In the American Revolution, there is the start of colonization by a English colony that established for commercial reasons.…
Efforts of Women: During World War I, the number of women working in Canadian industries increased from 570,000 to almost a million. From working in clerical jobs to making munitions, women had proven themselves to be as good as men. However, their pain was not comparable to the struggles soldiers on the frontline had to face. Yes, they were thought of as properties of men and in turn, had faced a considerable amount of sexism and oppression. This however, does not mean that being discriminated…