Based on the symptoms,
Differential diagnoses for the boy includes:
- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF) owing to his recent visit to Florida
- Meningitis
Course of treatment:
- The patient needs to be admitted
- Diagnostic tests including CBC, cultures of both blood and CSF to rule out meningitis should be done
Explanation:
Initial line of treatment with loading dose of doxycycline at 2.2 mg/kg and ceftriaxone at 100 mg/kg/day can be started.
RMSF is a contagious disease caused by ticks and is predominant in the southeastern regions of the United States like North Carolina. So the boy could have got the disease from his visit to N. Carolina. Doxycycline is a broad spectrum antibiotic is the most preferred treatment of choice for RMSF
Meningitis is a bacterial disease affecting the brain. Ceftriaxone is the treatment of choice for empirical treatment of meningitis.
Since the boy’s symptoms like fever, headache, petechial rashes etc are symptomatic of both RMSF and meningitis, both the antibiotics should be administered initially.
Then depending upon the culture results, other specific antibiotics and treatments can be started.
The answer is chemical contamination. This is because the paint chip that falls into the food contains chemicals that are harmful to the body such as lead that negatively affects the nervous system when consumed. Better handling of the food should, therefore, be observed by ensuring a greater distance between the place where the food is being handled and where the paint is.
Answer:
adapts to repeated demands
Explanation:
Answer:
One spread and the other is not.
Explanation:
Communicable diseases and noncommunicable diseases are different because communicable diseases spread from one person to another whereas non-communicable diseases are not spread from person to person. Poor hygiene can lead to these diseases because of the present of pathogens that causes diseases. I believe poor hygiene is a symptom because it damages our health by causing diseases in the individual.
