Question

One month after starting kindergarten, a six-year old girl became suddenly ill. Her symptoms included a cough, headache, chills, and severe body aches. After two days of a fever as high as 102.5, her parents took her to the family practitioner, where she also complained of chest discomfort. However, she did not have a stuffy nose, and had not been sneezing. a) Identify the disease presented by the patient. b) Identify the causal agent. Be as specific as possible based on the information provided (do not abbreviate). c) Identify at least one common treatment (other than a vaccine, if available) that is effective at either 1) clearing the infection, 2) shortening the course of the disease, or 3) reducing the severity of the disease. d) What is the most effective way to reduce the chances of contracting this disease? B І U A HTML Editor IX E 35 3 x? x © TT 12pt

Answer 1

(a) The patient might be suffering from Pneumonia.

(b) The patient have various symptoms like fever, cough, headache body chills.

But most importantly she has cough and a discomfort on chest though she does not have runny nose which is the most imporatnt symptom of a lung infection. Which means she is suffering from Streptococcus pneumoniae.

(c) This disease is caused by a bacteria and there are few treatments are available for this lung infection-

(1) To clear this disease antibiotic like Penicillin can be used which actually reduce the bacterial growth and eventually kills the bacterial pathogen.

(2) The penicillin antibiotic can be use to shortening the course of disease.

(3) To reduce the severity of the disease there are few treatments are available they are-

• Providing oxygen from outside source which reduces the lung difficulty or chest pain.
• Other analgesic like aspirin, ibuprofen can also be used.
• And oral re-hydration treatment,IV fluid also can be used to treat and reduce the severity of the disease.

(4) The Pneumonia is a bacterial disease so washing hands regularly, eating vegetables and fruits,doing regular exercise, and stop smoking and most important is that to stay away from sick people can reduce the chances of contracting the disease.