Patients with drug induced lupus have symptoms that affect the joints, heart and lungs. Neonatal Lupus occurs with antibodies cross the placenta in pregnancy from the mother to the child. Children that are born to women who test positive for the antibody SSA/RO are at greater risk of developing lupus, although this occurring is rare. The children who do end up with neonatal lupus will see symptoms like skin rashes and even liver underdevelopment. There is an even rarer chance that they could develop a life-threating heart condition called congenital heart block or
Addiction to these can happen if taken over a long period of time. Also, irritation of the stomach, liver damage and sleep disturbances as some analgesics contain caffeine. Antibiotics e.g. amoxicillin Antibiotics are used to treat infections caused by bacteria. Diarrhoea, feeling sick and vomiting are the most common side effects.
Common symptoms are acral necrosis of the extremities (such as the toes, fingers, lips and tip of the nose), high fever, nausea, vomiting, and breathing difficulty. Left untreated, Yersinia pestis can multiply rapidly in the bloodstream, possibly causing septicemic plague or even creep towards the lungs causing pneumonic plague. In order to diagnose bubonic plague, testing in the laboratory is required. Identification of the bacterium Yersinia pestis culture in a sample of serum from a patient’s blood is used for confirmation of the
There are many side effects to these medications, abdominal pain, gas, nausea, hair loss, headaches, and dizziness. Prednison is the most common steroid patients are given to induce remission in about 70-80%. Anti-tumor necrosis is a drug specifically designed to bind to, and block the effects of TNFa, inflammatory
The skin rash evolves uniformly in all areas. Patients are contagious until the scabs fall off. The differential diagnosis includes monkeypox, measles (early stages), secondary syphilis and chickenpox. One very important part of the diagnosis is differentiating smallpox from chickenpox. This can be done by noting that chickenpox appears mostly on the abdomen, while smallpox appears mostly on the
Name of STD: Cytomegalovirus What is it? Cytomegalovirus, also called CMV is a common virus that infects most people, but rarely causes obvious illness. Unfortunately, once you're infected with CMV, the virus is in your body for life. What causes it? The transmission of an infectious agent by another person by one or more of the following: saliva, air, cough, fecal-oral route, surfaces, blood, needles, blood transfusions, sexual contact, or mother to fetus (through the placenta).
Some of the common triggers for sickle cell crisis are fever, dehydration, stress, infection, hypoxia, bleeding, cold exposure, and drug and alcohol use. The immune system for people with sickle cell anemia is weakened which increases the likelihood of infection from flu viruses and bacteria which could lead to a fever. There are four different types of crises that are label based on the area of the body affected. They are bone, abdominal, chest, and joint crisis. During a sickle cell crisis, the pregnant person may present with severe unrelenting pain that is accompanied by nausea, vomiting, coughing up blood, diarrhea, or decreased range of motion of the affect extremity.
Typical Viruses are illnesses like smallpox, measles, mumps and tuberculosis etc which can be contracted by touch or being within an environment that has the virus in the air. Fungus or Fungi can cause such Infections like Athletes foot, Chlamydia and Thrush. Parasites because of the way they transfer from host to host mainly by contact and can cause infections such as Malaria, Ringworm, Fleas, nits etc. (3) A description of the terms ‘Infection’ and ‘Colonisation’ are that an infection can lead to a colonisation if un monitored or un treated. An infection would be
amoxicillin, Flucloxacillin, Penicillin. | Antibiotics are used to treat infections caused by bacteria. | Diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting are the most common side effects. Some people get a fungal infection such as thrush after treatment with antibiotics for a longer period of time. More serious side-effects of antibiotics include kidney problems, blood disorders, increased sensitivity to the sun and deafness.
should have used Agent Orange, because it caused many long-term effects to humans. Some birth defects are still occurring due to Agent Orange. Currently, 15,451 people are suffering from the effects of the toxic chemicals. Some conditions due to Agent Orange include: Hodgkin’s disease, multiple Myeloma, non-Hodgekin’s lymphoma, diabetes, Spina bifida, and Cloracne. These illnesses are all occurring in U.S. veterans.