Diagnostic Reasoning Symptom Assignment Student Name: Kristy Anderson Symptoms: 55 year old male presents to your clinic with and upset stomach and belching past several months. A. Identify the appropriate history questions to be asked of your patient to discriminate critical characteristics about the above presented concern. 1. Can you identify when exactly the upset stomach started? 2. Describe the upset stomach. Describe the pain. On a scale of 1/10 how painful is it? 3. Is the pain constant…
only the individual, but hurts everyone around them as well. Drinking too heavily can cause the individual to develop anemia, which is a disease that will cause their oxygen-carrying red blood cells to be far too low. Anemia has a lot of terrible symptoms, just some including extreme fatigue, fast heartbeat, and chest pains. Abusing alcohol could change the way a brain works and looks, since it interferes with a brain’s communication pathways. This would make it harder for someone to think or…
far was a 5-year-old girl who has acute pancreatitis. This is not a common diagnosis in a primary setting. The child came to the office last week and has been complaining of abdominal pain for a while, to an extent that she was not able to eat. She also had a low-grade fever. Due to her unable to taking in any food, the care provider at the office referred her to the ER. The child ended up was admitted to the hospital. She came back today because her symptoms still persist after couple day…
Smoking and the use of oral contraceptives and non- steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are associated with the exacerbation of symptoms (DX & MGMNT). CD is diagnosed using multiple sources: There is a physical examination and history. Findings of CD may include a family history of CD, diarrhea which may be bloody at times, fever, pain, fatigue, and tenderness in the abdomen. Lab…
damage the lining of the esophagus (Farabee 1992). Exposing the body to smoking can seriously increase the risk of gallstones, pancreatitis, Crohn;s disease, colon polyps. Its harmful contents may also increase the chance of other common digestive disorders such as liver cancer and peptic ulcers. Quitting smoking can reverse the effects on the body and can also improve the symptoms experience while smoking or keep them from becoming worse over time. Damage made by smoking can be reversed but,…
Treatment for the bulimic will be decided by the adolescent’s health care provider based on certain criteria. The criteria needed to help treat the victim is the teenagers age overall health, and medical history. Also, the extent of the teenager’s symptoms. Treatment could be used depending on the teenager’s tolerance for specific medicines or therapies (A.D.A.M., Inc.). Lastly, treatment could be used depending on the expectations for the course of the condition and by personal opinion or…
E.Coli (Escherichia Coli ) Brenda Arambula Health Science Technology 3/4/2016 INTRODUCTION Escherichia Coli most known as (E.Coli) is a bacteria that normally gets into your intestine of humans and sometimes even warm blooded animals .Some…
What is SIBO? SIBO is an acronym for “small intestinal bacterial overgrowth”. While bacterium is naturally present in the digestive tract, in a healthy body, the small intestine contains relatively low levels of bacteria. The large intestine contains approximately 10-100 billion bacterial organisms, and bacteria is supposed to be at its highest concentration in the colon. Compared to this number, the small intestine is relatively sterile (containing a mere 100 thousand organisms). However,…
Thromboembolism 0.1–1.3 Early/intermediate Skin complications variable Late Nutritional complications (of some degree) variable Late Metabolic complications variable Intermediate/late Cholelithiasis 7–10 Late Table “Symptom sorter”: alst of the common symptoms and their causes to aid diagnosis Tachycardia Hypotension Abdominal pain Pyrexia Nausea and vomiting GI bleed GI bleed GI bleed Leak Ulcer/fistula…
the disease will not affect the carrier, but the gene can be passed down to their children. This essay will address the biological basis and symptoms of Cystic Fibrosis, the treatments and/or management of this disease, and the issues, controversies regarding genetic screening. (University of Utah | Health Sciences, 2015) 1. The biological basis and symptoms of Cystic Fibrosis.…