Symptoms, causes, Treatment methods for various Diseases.
Introduction When a person has loose or watery stools, he has diarrhea. If mucus and blood can be seen in the stools, he has dysentery. Diarrhea can be mild or serious. It can be acute (Lasting for 3 to 7 day) or chronic (Lasting 3 weeks or more) Social Impact : Diarrhoea disease make...
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Introduction Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal disease caused by V. Cholera 01 (Classical or E1 Tor).Cases ranges from symptomless to severe infections. Unless there is rapid replacement of and electrolytes, the case fatality may be as high as 30% to 40%. Problem Statement Global experience of the current pandemic have shown that cholera can...
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Formerly known as Hepatitis non A non B. It is self-limiting disease transmitted by water or food contamination by faeces of patients. Incubation period : 2-9 weeks Agent : hepatitis E virus is the causative agent. Host : Mainly young adults, 15-40 years Infection during pregnancy is responsible for abortions, intrauterine death & high...
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Mainly transmitted through blood & blood products. Incubation period 6-7 weeks. Clinical illness is mild, usually asymatomatic (50%) with a high rate of (more than 50%) chronic hepatitis, which may lead to cirrhosis of liver or liver cancer. Diagnosis : Clinical diagnosis established in person with signs & symptoms of acute hepatitis by ruling...
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Introduction about Hepatitis B : Formally known as serum hepatitis hepatitis. Usually, it is an acute self limited infection, which may be either subclinical or symptomatic. In approximately 5 to 15% of cases. Infection may cause progressive liver disease including active hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Incidence & Prevalence : It is endemic throughout the...
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Introduction : Formerly known as “Infective” hepatitis or epidemic jaundice, caused by hepatitis A virus. Although mortally is less (0.1%) patients may be incapacitated for many weeks. Incidence & Prevalence : Exact incidence difficult to calculate due to high proportion of asymptomatic case4s however according to W.H.O. it is 10-50 persons per 1,00,000 population...
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The fibrinogen molecule is 30 times as long as it is broad. This asymmetry is responsible for the increased viscosity of the blood, and the increased rouleaux formation of red cells. Increased sedimentation rate of red cells of the blood occurs when there is increased amount of fibrinogen in the plasma. Fibrinogen is formed...
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Plasma factor defects. Deficiency of accelerators of prothrombin activity gives rise to haemophilia in which the coagulation time is prolonged. Haemophilia is inherited as a sex-linked recessive character transmitted from affected males to unaffected female conductors. Haemorrhage occurs either spontaneously or from slight trauma. Subcutaneous or intramuscular haemorrhage and bleeding from the mucous membrane...
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Prothrombin defects – congenitial (Haemorrhagic disease of the new-born) This is due to an exaggeration of the temporary physiological fall of prothrombin that occurs between the 1 st and 5th day of life, occurring in about 1% of new-born infants. At birth the baby has no reserve of vitamin K and its formation by...
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A study of the normal blood coagulation process reveals a two-stage reaction in which four main concepts about the chemistry of blood coagulation are integrated in proper order. The first stage of the reaction, in which the prothrombin of plasma is activated to thrombin represents a co-ordination of the first two concepts, viz., (1)...
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