The good news is that low birth weight is preventable. The bad news is that there is no simple solution to positively impact the myriad of interactive factors which result in a low birth weight baby. What differences exist between white Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans and immigrants that would affect the health of expecting mother and their children? According to the March of Dimes, four factors that tend to result in low birth weight include low income, lack of education, African American race, and being younger than 17 or older than 35 (March of Dimes, 2014). Imagine being fifteen, pregnant, dysfunctional or no family or male support, you smoke and/ or drink as a means of coping, low income, high school dropout, and probable history of abuse.
rapy Program CASE STUDY REPORT Date: 12/14/2014 Student: Lauren Schubert Facility: Redlands Community Hospital NICU Week: 5 Chief Complaint: RDS History & Physical: Baby girl born at 23 weeks old due to mother premature rupture of membranes. APGAR scores were 5 at 1 minute and 7 at 5 minutes. The baby girl weighed 500 grams and required immeadiate intubation and mechanical ventilation, surfactant was delivered post intubation. Diagnosis: RDS and prematurity Current Medications: Name Classification Action Indication for this pt Ampicillin Antibiotic Acts as an irreversible inhibitor of the enzyme transpeptidase, needed by bacteria to make their cell walls. It inhibits the third and final stage of bacterial cell wall synthesis in binary fission, leading to cell lysis.
D&E, which stands for dilation and evacuation, is a type of in-clinic abortion that is used on women who are more than four months pregnant (Planned Parenthood, 2012). The abortion pill is another common type of abortion that women use. It can only be used to treat a pregnancy earlier than nine weeks (Planned Parenthood, 2012). The pill is about 97% effective and can cause incomplete abortions, where part of the pregnancy is still left inside the uterus
On the other hand, type 16 and 18 cause about seventy percent of all cervical cancers. These types change the cells on a woman’s cervix which eventually turn cancerous. HPV usually comes and goes, but in about 11,000 cases a year in the United States, types 16 and 18 will claim 3,800 lives (Timmerman). According to the data HPV is more dominant in the younger group of women. Therefore, the CDC has recommended routine vaccinations for girls aged 11 or 12 or as young as
Food technology- assignment (pregnancy) power point Part A: Stage in life cycle: Pregnancy- and characteristics. LOW WEIGHT BIRTHS: Includes all births with a weight at birth of under 2500 grams or under 5 pounds and 8 ounces. CARE BEGAN FIRST TRIMESTER: Includes all births to women who began receiving prenatal care during the first three months of pregnancy. NO PRENATAL CARE: Includes all births to women who did not receive any prenatal care. ADEQUATE PRENATAL CARE: Includes all births to women who received Adequate or Adequate Plus prenatal care according to the Adequacy of Prenatal Care Utilization Index (APNCU) which is also known as the Kotelchuk Index of Prenatal Care.
Type 1 Diabetes (IDDM) People who have diabetes fall into one of two categories, referred to as Type 1 and Type 2. Type 1 diabetes, also known as insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, IDDM accounts for approximetly 10% of diabetes cases. In Type 1 the body does not produce insulin. Type 1 diabetes is usually diagnosed during childhood or young adulthood which is why it is referred to as juevenille diabetes. This disease has a sudden onset with symptoms such as polydipsia, polyphagia, polyuria, weight loss and fatigue.
Birth control pills can cause genealogical and reproductive problems. A recent development of a new type of birth control pill says that a woman can safely have only four periods a year, or may avoid having them entirely for several years at a time. This can be very dangerous as it means there is no break from the extra estrogen used in birth control pills to prevent pregnancy. When estrogen is not balanced by progesterone, estrogen dominance occurs and some very serious effects take place. There is an increased risk of breast cancer and blood clotting as well as heart attack and stroke.
I. Introduction A. According to the American Diabetes Association statistics show that 1 out of every 400 children and adolescents are diagnosed with diabetes under the age of 20. 1. statistics show that in the year 2010 the national institutes of health state that around 1.9 million people over the age of 20 were newly diagnosed with diabetes B. Throughout my speech I will inform my audience of : 1. the history of diabetes and how they have developed over the years 2. the different types 3. and also how you can change your diet in order to avoid diabetes later on down the road.
The ADA states, “Gestational diabetes affects about 4% of all pregnant women - about 135,000 cases of Gestational Diabetes in the United States each year” (2). Women who are pregnant who have a poor diet and high blood sugar (glucose) are at higher risk of getting gestational Diabetes. The fourth type of Diabetes is Pre-Diabetes. Pre-diabetes happens before a person gets Type 2 Diabetes. It is when the blood sugar levels are higher than normal but not high enough to be considered Diabetes.
In the more than 20 years since they have been saving extremely premature infants, with all the medical advanced technology the survival of very low birth weight babies. The National Center for Health statistics said that of the 3.9 million infants born in the United States in 1998, about 56,000 were considered very low birth weight. Of those about 16,647 were micro-preemies. With infants who were born weighing less than 1,000 grams or a little over 2 pounds were at a slightly higher risk for having cerebral palsy and slightly lower intelligence quotients than those of the same weight born in earlier decades. I feel like the author who wrote this is very persuasive on what she wrote about and with all of the evidence that was put into this essay was pretty much all hard evidence.