• The varicella virus has an incubation period of between 10 and 21 days. This means the rash will appear from 10 to 21 days after the virus has infected the patient. • A person infected with the virus is contagious about two days before the rash appears and will continue being so for another four to five days. Children or adults with weakened immune systems can be contagious for longer. • When the blisters have crusted over, they can no longer pass it onto others.
Introduction Hand, foot, and mouth disease is a common disease that affects children and sometimes adults. Children under five years old are more likely to have the disease. It can occur any time of the year, but it is more common in the summer and fall. The disease is not serious, and usually goes away in a week or so. There are many methods of prevention to stay clean from the disease.
Too large of an amount of bilirubin is reabsorbed from the intestines before the baby gets rid of it in the stool. High levels of bilirubin — usually above 25 mg — can cause deafness, cerebral palsy, or other forms of brain damage in some babies. In less common cases, jaundice may indicate the presence of another condition, such as an infection or a thyroid problem. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that all infants should be examined for jaundice within a few days of birth. There are a number of common types of jaundice that occur.
Epidemic Outbreak of “The Herpes Virus” (Assignment #1) Herpes is an infection caused by the etiologic agents Herpes Simplex Virus-1 and HSV-2. HSV-1 is the type generally known for causing oral herpes outbreaks, also known as cold sores or fever blisters. These blisters last from a week to a month, becoming open sores that crust over with scabs. The outbreak following the initial infection (usually a few days to a few weeks afterward) is usually the worst—the ones after that are less painful. Some people actually confuse their mild outbreaks with other skin conditions such as “eczema”.
Eczema will permanently go away by age of 3 in about half of affected infants. Adherence to the basic elements of treatment will usually work well, but only rarely can eczema be said to be curable. Most people with eczema have a family history of the condition or a family history of the other allergic conditions such as Hay fever or Asthma. The nature of the link between these conditions is inadequately understood. Up to 20% of children and 1%-2% of adults are believed to have eczema (this has been said by MedicineNet.com).
Peaking in January and February, Respiratory syncytial virus is the virus causing most common colds, when it is limited to the upper respiratory tract. Unfortunately when the virus aggravates the lower respiratory tract, complications occur, including respiratory distress, pneumonia, bronchiolitis and possibility the development of asthma. Pruitt also states that each year 125,000 children (mostly under 6 months of age) require hospitalization, and of these, about 2,500 die (Pruitt 63). Beyond this age, by about two years old, children have been exposed to RSV and have developed and immunity. If diagnosis of this infection is made through cultures of respiratory secretions, treatment begins immediately.
Giardia can be found within every region of the United States and around the world. In developed countries, it has infected 2% of the adults and 6 to 8% of children. In developing (or under develop) countries, it has infected nearly 33% of the peoples population. In the United States, Giardia infection is the most common intestinal parasitic disease affecting humans. It is basically a very bad stomach bug that will have you in the bathroom for long periods of time.
Hand Foot and Mouth Disease is a common contagious illness caused by viruses from the enterovirus family, most commonly the coxsackievirus. These viruses live in the body’s digestive tract and spread from person to person, usually on unwashed hands and surfaces contaminated by feces. Kids ages one to four are most prone to the disease. The disease is mostly seen in child care centers, preschools and other places kids congregate. The illness last usually from three to five days.
Newborns develop many diseases in their early life because of their low weight. A baby born small or large for gestational age (either of the two extremes) is thought to have an increased risk of obesity in later life but it was also shown that this relationship is fully explained by maternal weight. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_mass some diseases in the early life include Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). This is a breathing problem in babies born before 34 weeks. This protein that newborns do not have is small air sacs in the lungs that keep them from collapsing.
This organism infects the “gastrointestinal epithelium to produce a diarrhea that is self-limited in immune-competent people but potentially life-threatening in immune-suppressed people” (Magi et. al). Cryptosporidiosis is especially life-threatening in those with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome also known as AIDS. Infection by this parasite accounts for up to 6 percent of all diarrheal diseases in immune-competent people. The infection is also present in up to 24 percent of people with both AIDS and diarrhea