Asthma affects people of all ages, but it most often starts during childhood. Young children who often wheeze and have respiratory infections—as well as certain other risk factors—are at highest risk of developing asthma that continues beyond 6 years of age. The other risk factors include having allergies, eczema (an allergic skin condition), or parents who have asthma. Among children, more boys have asthma than girls. But among adults, more women have the disease than men.
It's also tough for children to be diagnosed as because not many of them will be able to perform some of the tests. Asthma is identified established from a medical history, physical examination and lung function test. Asthma is by definition a chronic disorder. It is diagnosed by a pattern of recurrent symptoms over a period of time, generally at least one year. Any of the S&S associated with asthma may occur with one illness or even several separate illnesses, but not recur over a longer period.
(Wikipedia contributors) The virus also remains alive and contagious on exposed surfaces and in the air for up two hours. Measles is highly contagious, over 95 percent of non-immunized children will develop the disease if exposed to the virus. (CDC) Symptoms of the disease first appear 10 to 12 days after initial exposure to the virus. These symptoms include cough, runny nose,fever, malaise, red watery eyes , koplik’s spots and the hallmark skin rash. (CDC) Initially a fever develops, followed by runny nose, cough and water eyes and koplik’s spots(small white spots that develop within the cheek and mouth).
Hunters Syndrome Michele Frizzell HCS/245 June 16, 2014 Erich Widemark Hunter Syndrome Most infants at one point or another get an ear infection, runny nose or a cold. As a parent, what would you do if your child had symptoms such as these? What diagnosis would a pediatrician give? The commonality of these symptoms in infants is high; therefore, Hunter Syndrome, or Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS II) would be the least likely diagnosis. The purpose of this paper is to educate individuals about Hunter Syndrome (MPS II).
Cystic Fibrosis is a very serious inherited genetic disease which affects one child in every 2,500 Caucasian births. This disease usually affects the lungs and causes the build up of a thick mucus which causes chest infections. These infections unfortunately usually lead to death during childhood or early adulthood. On occasion, besides affecting the lungs, it affects the bowels and the pancreas, causing blockages in the intestines and poor absorption of food. Cystic Fibrosis may first appear in a newly born baby, or in children or young adults.
COPD, also known as emphysema or chronic bronchitis dates back to 1814 when Badham described chronic cough and mucus hyper secretion as symptoms. Although COPD is a disease recognized to affect mainly smokers, it also occurs in non-smokers as well (Petty, Thomas L., 2006). COPD is a major cause of a number of disabilities and the fourth leading cause of death among Americans. COPD is a slow developing disease. There currently is no cure for COPD however, treatment and lifestyle changes can help patients to feel better and slow down the advancement of the disease.
Asthma and its Effects Kimberly Hardy HS200-02 Unit 4 Capstone Project: Case Study Number 5: Asthma Kaplan University Dec. 3, 2014 Asthma can be defined as a respiratory disease that causes difficulty breathing. It causes the airways to swell which leads to wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing. Adults and children are at risk of getting asthma. This disease not only affects the person with it but their family and friends as well. Asthma can be caused by a combination of genetics and environmental factors.
The video, “The Medicated Child,” is a PBS documentary on the rising numbers of children diagnosed with significant mental disorders, from ADHD to Bipolar disorder. This also shows the significance of heavy medication of those children with largely untested drugs. Something that was only touched on briefly by one specialist is that these untested drugs are being pumped into our children with little- to no- testing for the effects on children, in general, as the human brain is still vastly not understood and to introduce stimulants and depressants into a developing brain is borderline insane itself, and worth of a disgnosis for heavy medication itself. When interviewing the representative of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), he stated
Is there an Autism epidemic? Problem Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder that affects social and communication skills and in some cases, to a lesser degree, motor and language skills. (6) Autism was first diagnosed in the 1940’s and was described as a very rare disorder with cases being as few as one in every 10 000 children (1). By the1990’s diagnoses began to soar (as shown in graph below) and diagnosis had risen to one in every 500 children. In the 1990’s it was speculated that the increase was due to certain chemicals in vaccinations such as the MMR.
Secondhand smoke slows the growth of children's lungs and can cause them to cough wheeze, and feel breathless. Nicotine is a drug that is naturally present in the tobacco plant and is responsible for a person's addiction to tobacco products. Nicotine enters the lungs and is absorbed quickly into the bloodstream, travels to the brain in a matter of seconds. In a cigarette, the nicotine content varies between 13.7 and 23.2 milligrams. In a cigar, the nicotine content varies between 5.9 and 335.2