... LUPUS AWARENESS ESSAY Throughout the world today there is an estimated amount of 5 million people who has a disease called lupus erythematosus. Lupus erythematosus can be a fatal disease to those who have it. As defined on several sites lupus erythematosus is a chronic autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the human body. Saying chronic simply means the symptoms may last longer than six weeks and often many times for years. Lupus is normally found in women of childbearing ages 15-44. There is not yet a cure for the disease. In this essay I will further discuss the diagnosis of lupus and its four branches. I will also be discussing the many symptoms of lupus and the treatments that are used to contain the disease. Now let’s look into how the disease is diagnosed. To start of with, lupus erythematosus is once again defined as a chronic autoimmune disease that can damage any part of your body. What this means is your body immune system cannot tell the difference between your bodies healthy tissues and the foreign invaders. So your body will then create autoantibodies that will attack and destroy your bodies healthy tissues. The autoaintibodies that is created will then cause inflammation, and pain. There are four branches of lupus erythematosus. (1) The first branch is systemic lupus erythematosus which is an inflammatory autoimmune disease that attacks nearly every organ in your body (skin, joints, brain, lungs, kidneys, blood, and central nervous system)...
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...Chronic Bronchitis & Emphysema Compare and Contrast Essay University Composition and Communication 1 Deborah Karahalis June 9, 2013 Thesis Statement Chronic bronchitis (COPD) and emphysema are both chronic diseases that affect a great deal of people in our everyday lives. Chronic bronchitis (COPD) and emphysema are diseases people normally don’t realize they have until further down the line when it generally gets more severe; simply from living uneducated on symptoms of it. There have been over 12 million cases of people in the Unites States being diagnosed with either Chronic Bronchitis or emphysema. According to health experts there may be another 12 million people out there who have not been diagnosed. Generally people find out they have these diseases in their middle ages or when they are considered to be elders. It’s very important to know your potential risks and symptoms of Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema because these diseases are irreversible and they slowly progress over time, and there is no cure for it. Chronic Bronchitis and emphysema can be referred to the term known as COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder). In order to understand how chronic bronchitis or emphysema works you must have a thorough understanding of how the lungs work. When you inhale the air enters your windpipe and goes through your bronchial tubes, which enter the lungs. Your airways look like branches on a tree and at the end of each...
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...lab and imaging findings Week 4 Topic 4 Acidosis and Alkalosis Know your acid-bases! Week 5 Topic 5 Cardiovascular Causes of Fatigue Cor-pulmonale, cardiomyopathies Week 6 Topic 6 Thyroid, Adrenal, Liver Fatigue Hashimoto’s thyroiditis vs. DeQuervain vs. nodular goiter vs. secondary hypothyroidism Cirrhosis, Addison disease lab tests and hormone responsible. Is it high or low? Week 7 Topic 7 Bleeding as Indicator of Disease Pathophysiology of Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation Pathophysiology of Hemophilia Ulcers Week 8 Topic 8 Fever and Chills Beta-hemolytic streptococcus and Rheumatic fever signs/symptoms and lab findings (and Infective Endocarditis). Acute lymphocytic leukemia, Acute myelogenous leukemia, Chronic myelogenous leukemia, Hodgkin lymphoma, Burkitt lymphoma, Multiple Myeloma signs, symptoms, and lab findings Glomerulonephritis, mononucleosis Week 9 Topic 9 Respiratory...
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...Pathology Assignment 1 – Essay. Candidate No 690814 Describe the four signs of inflammation and explain how each develops. What benefit is derived from the development of each sign? Introduction To quote Tortora and Derrickson (2009), “Inflammation is a non-specific, defensive response of the body to tissue damage”. The most common causes of tissue damage are physical and chemical trauma, and infections. And, the classical four external signs of inflammation are described as: redness (erythema or rubor); swelling (oedema); heat (calor); and, pain (dolor). Inflammation is an essential part of the healing process and this essay will describe the inflammation response and development of the signs of inflammation. The process has been divided...
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...poor prognosis has a large impact on a person’s physical, emotional, cognitive and behavioural (Hill, Muers,Connolly, & Round, 2003). A poor prognosis is the stage for a research of the emotions, spiritual needs and fears in the process of individual’s health condition. To maintain individuals emotional, physical cognitive behavioral responses acts as an important Phenomenon in day to day life (Gonzalez-prendes & Resko, 2012). The aim of this essay is to provide a framework of how people react physically, emotionally, cognitively and behaviorally to a newly diagnosed condition with a poor prognosis especially in the first week. Physical responses of an individual reported Pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances, headache, tachycardia, hyperventilation, and poor appetite and had a steady and notable effect on losses in functioning unrelated to patients’ treatments or their disease conditions (Given, B, Given, C., Azzouz, F., & Stommel, M. 2001). Other responses present with the grief. Grief can be outwardly manifested by physical symptoms, like as a globus sensation, angina, painful arms, irritation to noise, Dyspnea, lethargy, myasthenia, or ataxia (Jones and Creedy, 2012). The functional restraint urge by the disease may result in distress, and some doctor find it very hard to develop to thought such...
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...To Legalize or Not to Legalize Medical Marijuana Elizabeth Connell ENG/102 Research Writing To Legalize or Not to Legalize Medical Marijuana Even though marijuana is a drug, legalized marijuana for medicinal use will help patients through various medical issues. Marijuana has been proven to ease the side effects of chemotherapy, helps patients with severe migraine, and glaucoma patients. Many people are on the fence over the legalization of medical marijuana. There are several reasons to legalize marijuana for medical use, let me tell you about one of the reasons. Six-year-old Charlotte is a little girl who suffered from an untreatable form of epilepsy. By the time she was two years old, her parents had tried all medications to cure her some of which almost killed her. She suffered nearly fifty seizures a night. Her parents managed to get her a medical marijuana card in Colorado. Her parents reported her seizures stopped after her first dose of cannabis oil. Charlotte came out of her catatonic state and met her parents for the first time. CNN featured Charlotte and documented her story. Some parents have turned to medical marijuana to treat their children of the incapacitating epilepsy. Doctors are attributing the drug with reducing seizure activity and bringing alleviation to epileptics. According to an article written by K. Pickert (2014), an innovative clinical trial is about to commence. This clinical trial may finally afford some science to support their assertions...
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...Assignment - Module 8 Word Count 2221 This essay will be describing the condition irritable bowel syndrome. I will also be discussing the possible uses of hypnosis in helping to treat the aspects of this condition. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a condition of the gut and it has been noted that it is a condition which affects about 1 in 10 people at some time. Statistically it has been recorded that it is more prevalent among people between the ages of 25 – 45 and females are more affected than males. However this condition can cause problems at any age to both sexes and ethnicity may be a factor to be considered. For example data for Pakistan shows that males between 16-30 have a higher rate of IBS. There are many symptoms that many IBS suffers endure such as: Feeling and being sick by vomiting Diarrhoea Constipation Pain in the abdomen Bloating/wind Feeling that you haven’t fully emptied all faeces from the rectum Stress and anxiety Depression to list a few. This condition causes great problems with the sufferer as it can destroy and disrupt their day to day life. Before a person with IBS and a hypnotherapist work together the IBS patient should have already seen a GP and consequently been diagnosed. An ethical hypnotherapist would need to know that all other, more serious conditions such as bowel cancer, have been ruled out and that the problem is IBS for a fact. The doctor should have...
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...If I believe that I feel cooler and that my fever has gone down, I will ultimately feel better. Many health care professionals have backed the claim that it actually doesn’t have any physiological benefits for the body however there have been actual side effects from using specific oils in the practice. Some patients have developed toxicity and contact dermatitis from the use of the specific oils. Ravanfar and Dinulos report that, “Such oils including camphor, menthol, wintergreen oil, eucalyptus oil, peppermint oil, and cinnamon oil. The use of these heated lubricants has been associated with burns, contact dermatitis, and toxicity.” Contact dermatitis occurs when the skin becomes inflamed and irritated due to the use of a skin irritant. Toxicity happens when the substances enter a break in the skin and gets into the bloodstream, which can lead to complications. Camphor is a substance that is found in Vicks which happens to be the only product that I choose to be coined with. Camphor toxicity can lead to neurological effects such as such as involuntary...
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...Sepsis An Overview Health And Social Care Essay ukessays.com /essays/health-and-social-care/sepsis-an-overview-health-and-social-careessay.php Sepsis is an infection of the bloodstream. The infection tends to spread quickly and often is difficult to recognize. One of our roles as a nurse is that of patient advocate, and as such we are closest to the patient, placing us in a key position to identify any subtle changes at their earliest onset and prevent the spread of severe infection. Knowledge of the signs and symptoms of SIRS, sepsis, and septic shock is key to early recognition. Early recognition allows for appropriate treatment to begin sooner, decreasing the likelihood of septic shock and life-threatening organ failure. Once sepsis is diagnosed, early and aggressive treatment can begin, which greatly reduces mortality rates associated with sepsis. sep•sis (ˈsep-səs) n. Sometimes called blood poisoning, sepsis is the body's often deadly response to infection or injury (Merriam-Webster, 2011) Sepsis is a potentially life-threatening condition caused by the immune system's reaction to an infection; it is the leading cause of death in intensive care units (Mayo Clinic Staff, Mayo Clinic 2010). It is defined by the presence of 2 or more SIRS (systemic inflammatory response syndrome) criteria in the setting of a documented or presumed infection (Rivers, McIntyre, Morro, Rivers, 2005 pg 1054). Chemicals that are released into the blood to fight infection trigger widespread inflammation...
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...and encodes for a special chloride ion channel.4,5 The vast majority of mutations involve three or fewer nucleotides and result in primarily amino acid substitutions, frameshifts, splice site, or nonsense mutations.11 Of more than 800 identified CFTR mutations, the 3 base pair deletion of phenylalanine at position 508 is found worldwide in 70% of cystic fibrosis sufferers, therefore making F508 CFTR the most common deadly mutant in the Caucasian populations.6 Since cystic fibrosis has a genetic origin the opportunity to treat by replacing the defective gene with a normal healthy gene (gene therapy) offers a ‘novel therapeutic approach’ for sufferers.7 The estimated survival age of cystic fibrosis sufferers is 33.4 years (Fig 1). In this essay we will discuss the aetiology and symptoms of cystic fibrosis and the current available treatments, with particular emphasis on gene therapy and furanones, which prevent the build up of bacterial biofilms and thus reduce lung infection. Mutations in the CF gene can disrupt CFTR function within epithelial cells in different ways, ranging from complete loss of protein to surface expression with poor chloride conductance.12 The five major mechanisms by which CFTR function is altered are summarized in Figure 2. Class one mutations produce premature transcription termination signals resulting in unstable, truncated, or no protein expression. Class two mutations, including F508, cause the protein to fold incorrectly leading to premature...
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...“What is Hypnosis?” Describe the psychological and physical aspects of hypnosis and discuss the role of relaxation in hypnotherapy. Main Essay Introduction; In this essay I intend to provide a brief history and background to hypnosis, cover both the psychological and physical aspect of hypnosis and conclude with the role of relaxation in hypnotherapy. Hypnosis has frequently been linked with the strange and mysterious, it could also be argued that it has been discredited by entertainers. The truth is that hypnosis isn’t the least bit mysterious or supernatural. In fact, we all have been in an hypnotic state probably thousands of times. We don’t notice it because it seems like such a natural state of mind and the hypnotic state is natural for all humans and many animals. The history of hypnosis is full of contradictions. On the one hand, the history of hypnosis is a bit like the history of breathing. Like breathing, hypnosis is an inherent and universal trait, shared and experienced by all human beings since the dawn of time. On the other hand, it’s only in the last few decades that we’ve come to realise that hypnosis itself hasn’t changed for thousands of years, but our understanding of it and our ability to control it has changed quite profoundly. The history of hypnosis then is really the history of this change in perception. Many people have concerns that hypnosis could make them do something that they would not normally do, something embarrassing, shocking or even...
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...| Disorders, Diseases, & Drugs | | | Amber Kluever | 3/9/2014 | In this paper you will learn about psychological disorders and diseases, the drugs used to treat those disorders and the negative side effects of those drugs being used for treatment. | Schizophrenia is a disease most commonly associated with madness, also called “the splitting of psychic functions.” They called it that because they assumed that was the primary symptom of the disorder, meaning that the emotions, thoughts, and actions were being broke down. Schizophrenia attacks about 1 % of individuals of all races and culture groups. It usually starts when a person is an adolescence or early adulthood. The hardest part of treating schizophrenia is being able to define it and the symptoms. They symptoms overflow and are the same as some other disorders so you might think it is one disorder and find out that it is actually schizophrenia. Some positive symptoms, meaning there are symptoms that represent an excess or distortion of normal function include, delusions: delusions of being controlled, delusions of persecution, or delusions of grandeur. Hallucinations are imaginary voices telling them to do something. Failure to react with the appropriate emotion to positive or negative events is a sign of inappropriate affect. Odd behavior is when a person has a hard time performing daily tasks such as, personal hygiene, catatonia, and talking in rhymes. Some of the negative effects include, alogia...
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...Abnormal Psychology - Depression Liberty University Abstract This paper explores depression in abnormal psychology through literature focusing on its history, causes, treatment, prevention, cross-cultural issues, and a Biblical worldview. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has various categories of depression, and it offers particular criteria for the treatment of the different forms of depression. The introduction gives the reader an overview of depression and how it influences the health of an individual in a negative manner. Through its historical context, it is possible to review the progress mankind has made in coming up with effective ways of dealing with depression. Under causes, depression is indicated as being caused by various environmental, psychological, and biological factors. Treating depression necessitates timely medical attention, but it can be prevented through ideal health habits such as exercise and relaxation. Various cross-cultural issues about depression are highlighted, with Christianity offering a spiritual insight into the causes and treatment of depression. Keywords: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), bipolar disorder, neurotransmitters, antidepressants, psychotherapy, cross-cultural diagnostics Introduction Under abnormal psychology, depression is considered a serious illness with a negative influence on both the mental and physical health of an individual. Depression influences...
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...PLANT MAXWELL P.K.D ANDOH-M00508829. Rarely a day goes by without a reference in the newspaper, television or on the internet to illnesses or disabilities caused at work. In Some cases, the effects may be reversible but for others are not. In many others, detrimental effects to health cannot be overcome and even shorten life expectancy, thereby increasing the need and values of Occupational hygiene. Occupational Hygiene may be defined as the use of science and engineering to prevent ill health caused by the environment in which a person works (OH learning). Occupational Hygiene has policies with which it operates in other to understand the risks posed by hazardous agent and thus aid in improving working conditions and work practices. This essay tends to highlight these policies as well as how to go about it in an industrial setting (Mining) where Sodium Cyanide (NaCN) is used. Sodium Cyanide is a hazardous substance in the Mining industry yet it is principal to a successful extraction of mineral of interest, thereby making it less substitutable depending on so many factors considered (such as cost, efficiency, hazards). What is considered above all others is the need to be able to identify and recognize the risk to using cyanide and to minimize it to a reasonably practicable level. Sodium Cyanide is a white powder (like salt). It is used in both solid or in liquid state but sometimes combines with other elements to form a poisonous gas in the extraction process. Some of the potential...
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...EDUCATION AND TRAINING LEGAL AND EThICAL IssUEs Of EUThANAsIA: ARGUmENTATIvE EssAy Bilal S. H. Badr Naga Majd T. Mrayyan (1) Bilal S. H. Badr Naga., MSN, RN, Prince Sultan Cardiac Center in Qassim, Saudi Arabia (2) Majd T. Mrayyan., Prof, RN, The Hashemite University, Jordan Correspondence: Bilal S. H. Badr Naga., MSN, RN, Prince Sultan Cardiac Center in Qassim, Saudi Arabia Email: Bilal_badrnaga@yahoo.com Case scenario Abstract Euthanasia is one of the issues that has been the subject of intense debate over time. It has been a pertinent issue in human rights discourse as it also affects ethical and legal issues pertaining to patients and health care providers. This paper discusses the legal and ethical debates concerning both types of euthanasia. It focuses on both the supporter of euthanasia and the opponent of euthanasia. Several statements for the Euthanasia argument arediscussed: a merciful response that alleviates the suffering of patients which is sometimes wrongly perceived to be otherwise unrelievable; the autonomy in which the patient has the right to make his own choices; the regulation and legislation of existing practices of euthanasia to protect health care providers and patients. In this heated debate religious, political, ethical, legal and personal views are also included. Among all these, those who desperately want to end their lives because they simply cannot go on in any way, are the ones who suffer. Every individual or group has a different viewpoint...
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