5,313 people in Springfield suffer from asthma, and over 5,000 people die every year from an asthma attack. The city of Springfield’s high asthma rates can be blamed on dust mites. Springfield has many older buildings and older housing stock. Older buildings in Springfield have more dust mites compared to the newer building in Springfield because typically older buildings tend to have more of a connection of dust mites, mold, and many other asthma triggers. The ventilation in older houses causes poor air conditions and makes living conditions hard.
There was now a smaller chance that people would come in contact with dangerous microbes early in life, when the infection was milder and maternal antibodies offered temporary protection,” (Oshinsky 31) resulting in more appearances of polio. Polio, also known as infantile paralysis, had the potential to cause partial or full paralysis in a child. However, this contagious disease had different severities. For example, in less severe cases of polio, a child might have discomfort or stiffness of the limbs of their body accompanied with a fever or a skin rash. Polio was passed on through direct contact with an infected child, infected mucus from coughing and sneezing, and feces.
• In an average classroom of 20 children, there are most likely at least three children who are either victims or bullies. • One-half of motor vehicle accidents involving adolescents are associated with alcohol and other drugs. Methodology: This is a Quantitative study providing seemingly countless statistics, percents, and relationships between children and the “critical issues” they face today. Findings: Although poverty rates have gone down in the last 15 years, with the recent economic downturn, it is anticipated that we will again experience significant increases in children living poverty. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that children, adolescents, and young adults are disproportionately affected by violent injury and death.
This can happen in a care home easily, as older people are very fragile and prone to infections. In a care home infections can be spread by staff not wearing gloves and aprons, which can lead to cross contamination. Another way infection could spread is by a resident having the flu and being put in the same room as the other residents, this could cause the rest of the care home becoming ill. Infection can be brought to a residential care home from an outsider such as a family member. If they are to have an infection it could still be in the air for days, for other people to catch it.
In this group there are nearly one-fourth of children that are overweight (www.cdc.gov). According to the Center of Disease Control childhood and adolescent obesity rates are higher in Georgia than in the United States (www.cdc.gov). The disparities in Georgia are very similar to those children that are across the United States. Children who are minorities and from rural areas are more like to be obese. And when taking a look at the statistics of obesity in children and adolescents in the United States, 18.8 percent of 6 - 11 year old children are obese, 17.4 percent of children ages 12-19 are obese (www.cdc.gov).
There for it is easy to misdiagnose asthma for Cystic fibrosis. The airway obstruction can be due to endoluminal pathology or due to external compression. Patients are often misdiagnosed as asthma before the correct diagnosis is made. Most patients who develop upper airway obstruction have a known diagnosis of cancer, but at times it may be the first presentation of a small, critically placed lesion that is curable. In the pediatric age group, many children with Hodgkins lymphoma present directly in respiratory obstruction caused by a mediastinal mass as the first symptom.
Viruses such as small pox, measles, and mumps that could invade your child’s body which in most circumstances will then be brought home and spread to other family members. Therefore, every child in America needs to be vaccinated before beginning school because vaccines can prevent disease, save lives, and alleviate sick days at school. Firstly, many of these contagious diseases in children are preventable. Many of the viruses that cause diseases such as measles, mumps, or small pox are very dangerous. Sometimes the symptoms are very mild or not even noticed.
In addition to childhood vaccines, there's also debate about adult vaccines, particularly for the seasonal flu. According to some parents children’s immune systems can deal with most infections naturally and that vaccines cause immune system suppression, and can permanently damage the natural immune system. But the risks of not being vaccinated far outweigh the small risks
Introduction: Intussusception is a common gastrointestinal surgical emergency in the paediatric age population. This illness is a conversion in which a segment of the intestine (intussusceptum) telescopes into another adjacent distal portion of the intestine (intussuscipiens), causing bowel and ileocolic obstruction. Intussusception is considered a frequent cause of abdominal pain in paediatric patients and is also more common in children than in adults. Furthermore, its incidence varies between infants and neonates. It is well described in infants, with an incidence of 0.1 to 0.4 %, however it is not fully established in neonates.1, 2 In fewer than 10% of the cases, a surgical lead point can be determined as a plausible aetiology.
ETS is made up of the smoke that comes from the end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar called side-stream smoke. People that are constantly exposed to ETS are at an increasing risk for developing health problems related to it. Many underage children are regularly inhaling ETS. Since children’s respiration rate is faster than adults and they take in more air, if ETS is present in the air, the children can develop a lot of health problems. ETS can cause problems like bronchitis, pneumonia, middle ear disease, and asthma.