Diphtheria
the definition:
Acute disease affecting the tonsils, throat, throat and nose. It may also affect other mucous membranes and skin and can lead to paralysis of muscles, sensory nerves and myocarditis.
Objectives:
1. Prevent the transmission of the disease from person to person.
2. Provide care for people with the disease.
Rules and Regulations:
The nurse nurse at the health center must know:
- Methods of infection:
The source of infection is discharge from the mucous membranes, nose, throat, skin and other infections. The infection is transmitted in contact with the patient or pregnant with the microbe or the instruments that have been contaminated by their secretions. Milk acts as a means of transmission.
Signs and symptoms:
The internal parts of the body, causing throat injuries, and one of the most important dangers of diphtheria extends the membrane and surrounding inflammation to the trachea and talk of what seems like suffocation, which may lead to the child's life, God forbid.
In the cases of diphtheria pharynx, the disease begins with high temperature and sore throat with headaches and lethargy. The most common characteristic of the disease is the presence of a gray membrane on the base of the inflamed red at the site of the throat with swollen around it and where the microbes of the disease and multiply by the toxins produced by the blood to the body.
- The incubation period:
Between 2 and 5 days
* Antibodies present in the mother's body give immunity to the child for the first 6 months of age.
Measures:
1. Remove the infected child so as not to infect others.
2. Work to provide a quiet and comfortable place for the child and parents.
3. Give the child the necessary fluids and continue breastfeeding.
preventive measures:
Reporting cases and taking action from the functions of the health inspector and the nursing homes, knowing them to carry out the necessary awareness.
1. Report the case as soon as it is detected and fill in the epidemiological investigation form.
2 - Isolation of the infected child so as not to transmit infection to others.
3 - Immunization of bacteriostasis for adults and bacterial triglycerides for young people.
4 - give preventive treatment to those involved.
the definition:
Acute disease affecting the tonsils, throat, throat and nose. It may also affect other mucous membranes and skin and can lead to paralysis of muscles, sensory nerves and myocarditis.
Objectives:
1. Prevent the transmission of the disease from person to person.
2. Provide care for people with the disease.
Rules and Regulations:
The nurse nurse at the health center must know:
- Methods of infection:
The source of infection is discharge from the mucous membranes, nose, throat, skin and other infections. The infection is transmitted in contact with the patient or pregnant with the microbe or the instruments that have been contaminated by their secretions. Milk acts as a means of transmission.
Signs and symptoms:
The internal parts of the body, causing throat injuries, and one of the most important dangers of diphtheria extends the membrane and surrounding inflammation to the trachea and talk of what seems like suffocation, which may lead to the child's life, God forbid.
In the cases of diphtheria pharynx, the disease begins with high temperature and sore throat with headaches and lethargy. The most common characteristic of the disease is the presence of a gray membrane on the base of the inflamed red at the site of the throat with swollen around it and where the microbes of the disease and multiply by the toxins produced by the blood to the body.
- The incubation period:
Between 2 and 5 days
* Antibodies present in the mother's body give immunity to the child for the first 6 months of age.
Measures:
1. Remove the infected child so as not to infect others.
2. Work to provide a quiet and comfortable place for the child and parents.
3. Give the child the necessary fluids and continue breastfeeding.
preventive measures:
Reporting cases and taking action from the functions of the health inspector and the nursing homes, knowing them to carry out the necessary awareness.
1. Report the case as soon as it is detected and fill in the epidemiological investigation form.
2 - Isolation of the infected child so as not to transmit infection to others.
3 - Immunization of bacteriostasis for adults and bacterial triglycerides for young people.
4 - give preventive treatment to those involved.