PART A QUESTION 1 Infection control in a health care setting Chickenpox in a Health Care Worker – Total 13 marks A registered nurse working in an HDU (High Dependency Unit) notified the Infection Control Nurse that her daughter had chickenpox. The daughter’s skin lesions had appeared five days prior to the notification. The staff member did not have a history of having had the disease and was in the second trimester of her second pregnancy. Blood tests on the RN for antibody to Varicella zoster virus (VZV) were negative. She was rostered off work and given varicella zoster specific immunoglobulin by her obstetrician.
Although this particular condition is somewhat unusual in babies, the lesions indicate that the child must have experienced a common childhood illness earlier. Which one? 3. The mother says that, to her knowledge, the baby has no had this common childhood illness, but that his 3-year-old sister had it four months ago, when the baby was 2 months old. Explain the link between the girl’s illness and the baby’s condition.
Children under the age of eight are also not able to receive antibiotics because the medicine is too strong for them as well. If you are already pregnant when bitten by a tick, there are three possible negative outcomes that could result. First, the baby could be born with the disease. Secondly, the mother could have a miscarriage because of the infection. Finally, the mother could carry to term, only to deliver a stillborn
", "will she make it? ", and "is she going to be the same?". I was informed that just 3 days after she gave birth she was sitting on the couch with her mother and her mother noticed a foul smell. Her mother had asked her what it was. My friend lifted up her shirt, showed her a bright red (not pink) belly, and told her mother she had been calling and informing the doctor's office for days.
Some attention has been brought to the dangers of consuming GM foods by a French study finding a link between GMOs and tumors (Gucciardi). Since this study, France and other countries have banned both the importation and use of Monsanto’s GMO corn (Gucciardi). In this two-year long study done in France, rats were fed Monsanto’s genetically engineered corn to evaluate the long term health effects (Mercola). The female rats developed large mammary tumors, whereas the male rats developed noticeable tumors along with damaged livers and kidneys (Mercola). Both sexes died two to three times earlier than the standard controlled rats (Mercola).
It is also believed that vaccines are causing autism. Though I concede that getting vaccinated can be somewhat dangerous, I still maintain the idea that they should not be the sole reason to blame for the fact that children are being diagnosed with autism. There has been no concrete evidence that there is a direct correlation between being immunized and this neurological disorder. Generally administered to toddlers 12-15 months old, the extremely common vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella, (MMR) supposedly causes a gastrointestinal syndrome in children that are more susceptible. Such syndrome allows unspecified toxins to be released into the bloodstream, thus triggering autism.
Clearing may take place from the center out, leaving a bull's-eye effect; in some cases, the center gets redder instead of clearing. The rash may look like a bruise on people with dark skin. Of those who develop Lyme disease, about 50% notice flu-like symptoms, including fatigue, headache, chills and fever, muscle and joint pain, and lymph node swelling. However, a rash at the site can also be an allergic reaction to the tick saliva rather than an indicator of Lyme disease, particularly if the rash appears in less than three days and disappears only days
The family’s seven year old daughter has been diagnosed with epilepsy. The doctors have tried everything they know to do. The medications barely help and have such serious side effects. The little girl health is deteriorating. The mom stated that one year ago her daughter was able to write her name, however, now the 7 year old girl can no longer write her name.
Wilma Glodean Rudolph was born prematurely at 4.5 pounds (2.0 kg), the 20th of 22 siblings from two marriages;[4][3] her father Ed was a railway porter and her mother Blanche a maid. [9] Rudolph contracted infantile paralysis (caused by the polio virus) at age four. She recovered, but wore a brace on her left leg and foot (which had become twisted as a result) until she was nine. She was required to wear an orthopaedic shoe for support of her foot for another two years. Her family traveled regularly from Clarksville, Tennessee, to Meharry Hospital (now Nashville General Hospital at Meharry) in Nashville, Tennessee for treatments for her twisted leg.
Against her doctor’s wishes, her mother, Erin Purchase, began giving her lime-flavored capsules filled with cannabis oil after she had a poor response to her initial chemotherapy treatment. Her doctors suggested a bone marrow transplant, but while she was taking the medical marijuana, she went into remission in August. She continues to rely on cannabis to ease pain and nausea and her mother plans to continue giving her the drug during the additional two to three years of chemotherapy she still faces. Purchase, believes that certain components in marijuana, which show anti-cancer activity in many early studies, helped spark the remission. Mykayla’s current doctor knows she