influence of influenza

Date Submitted: 03/10/2004 02:03:41
Category: / Science & Technology
Length: 3 pages (924 words)
Case Study: "The InFLUence of the Influenza" The patient Terry B. (Case no.19), has acquired the microbial agent Pneumonia Influenza. The patient is a three year old white male with a headache, lethargy and was running a high fever of 39.7 degrees Celsius. He has suffered from a previous illness of infection of the upper respiratory. Due to the fever, he had a systolic of 110 over 75 diastolic; pulse of racy 100. The fever also accounted for abnormal …
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…and to reduce fever. Warm fluids soothe a sore throat and inhaling steam has a soothing effect on the lungs. The response of pneumococal pneumonia to penicillin is at times one of the most dramatic thereapeutics in medicine. Smoking and cigarette smoke at all cost should be avoided. The Incidence of pneumonia and bronchitis in infants examined over the first trhee years of life showed a definite relationship between these diseases and parents' smoking habits.
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