See GP if symptoms last longer a week or worsen. | Tonsillitis | Inflammation of the tonsils by infection, very sore throat, fever, earache, enlarged red tonsils with white spots on them. | See GP and treat with antibiotics. | Diarrhoea and vomiting | Being sick and diarrhoea often, generally feeling unwell. | Until diarrhoea and vomiting has settled and for 24 hours after.
Whooping cough is spread from person-to-person by droplets traveling through the air that carry bacteria from a cough or sneeze of an infected child. Since the pertussis vaccination did not have a high success rate, the use of “the latest wonder drugs, aureomycin and chloromycetin, help[ed] to overcome the infection and therefore shorten the duration of the illness” (Van Dellen
Lupus: The Body Attacking Itself Systematic lupus erythematosus, better known as SLE or more popularly as lupus, is an auto-immune disease which causes the body to pretty much attack itself (Brown 4). As the case with other auto-immune diseases, when lupus occurs, the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks its normal, healthy tissue, slowly killing a person from the inside out (Maraux 5). Everybody can get lupus, but the disease is more common in women than men, and past studies have shown that it is also more common in African Americans and Asians ages 15 through 45 (Blau 30). Lupus is a disease that can damage the body inside and out, is hard to diagnose right away, has many harmful complications, and has multiple forms (New York Times
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.
USA vaccines cover A, C, W-135, and Y but not B (Coffee, 2015). The incubation period of meningococcal disease ranges from 2 to 10 days. The disease is spread through saliva and respiratory droplets. The most common way people transfer the disease is through kissing, sharing drinks, sharing used silverware, sharing lip balm, and close contact with an infected person who may cough or sneeze within three feet of an individual. Meningococcal meningitis is a fast moving, deadly infection that kills 10 to 13% of its victims within a matter of hours or days (CDC, 2015).
In cutaneous anthrax there is a 1 to 7 day of incubation period, a small papule appears at the site of inoculation. A papule is a small solid pimple or swelling that may form a rash and may typically be inflamed. It develops into a vesicle filled with clear fluid. Subsequently, a small ring surrounding of similar vesicles develops and fuses. This fusion turns into a large lesion causing erythema, which is superficial reddening of the skin, pruritis a severe itching of the skin and non pitting edema ( swelling in certain parts of the body) pain is rarely experienced.
There may be an outer ring of brighter redness and a central area of clearing leading to a bull’s eye appearance. This rash is called Erythema migran pertaining to a “bull’s eye”. The symptoms to this stage are general fatigue, muscle and joint stiffness, swollen lymph nodes, and headaches. Stage 2 is called early disseminated infection which is a few days to weeks after the initial bite and the disease starts to spread to through the bloodstream. It will develop at sites across the body that bears no relation to the tick bite.
Sometimes the symptoms are very mild or not even noticed. While other times the symptoms can be severe, possibly even leaving a residual effect. For example, as everyone knows, if an adult male contracts mumps, this may cause sterility. Another example is polio, although preventable, once this disease is contracted it can lead to permanent muscle weakness. Once someone contracts one of these types of disease, it can possibly be fatal.
In addition to difficulty with everyday tasks, people who suffer from adhesive capsulitis usually experience problems sleeping for extended periods due to pain that is worse at night and restricted movement/positions. The condition also can lead to depression, pain, and problems in the neck and back. Risk factors for frozen shoulder include diabetes, stroke, accidents, lung disease, connective tissue disorders, and heart disease. The condition very rarely appears in people under 40. Diabetes Long term complications of diabetes may include changes in connective tissue that occur as a result of high glucose levels.
Though less likely, you may also catch the flu virus by touching phones, door handles or other inanimate objects and then touching your own eyes, nose, or mouth. The incubation period for influenza is commonly 2 days but can range anywhere from one to four days from initial contact with the virus. Once the onset of symptoms occur, a person can transmit the virus for up to seven days, individuals may even be contagious one day prior to the onset of flu like symptoms. You’ll know when you have the flu once your symptoms start to appear. The flu begins abruptly, causing high fevers, generally 102 -106F, headache, tiredness, dry cough, sore throat, muscle aches and stiffness, chills, fatigue, malaise, sweating, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, lack of appetite, and worsening of other illnesses such as heart failure or asthma.