The human body in many ways acts like the Newton’s 3rd law which is for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. When the body is going through changes, the body activates the compensatory mechanism. This is what is referred as adaptive response....
Syncope and Vertigo are often used as interchangeable terms. This is inaccurate, despite both being forms of dizziness. The term ‘Dizziness’ is given when a patient experiences changes of consciousness, movement, sensation and perception. The term ‘Dizziness” can be broken into four different types; syncope/presyncope,...
The assignment will bring about the assessment on the concepts of healthcare and other related aspects of health and illness among individuals. The report will focus upon the identification and assessment of a case of renal disease. Renal disease or kidney disease is one of...
The patient is a 63-year-old African-American retired firefighter whose brother was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. As a former firefighter, he has managed to maintain a healthy lifestyle, taking vitamins regularly and having no past medical history. Recently, he visited his primary care physician with...
The article “Frontiers in the Bioarchaeology of Stress and Disease: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives From Pathophysiology, Human Biology, and Epidemiology” by Haagen D. Klaus (2014) looks at different aspects of a cross-disciplinary view. Klaus talks about three main ideas: pathophysiology, human biology, and epidemiology. He shows how...
The scenario presents a 4-month pregnant female with Phenylketonuria (PKU). Due the teratogenic effects that phenylalanine has on a foetus, her GP has advised her to go on a low-protein diet. The distress that this caused to Nuria made her drastically change her eating habits...
Anaerobic bacteria do not replicate in the presence of oxygen. Three categories of anaerobic bacteria include obligate anaerobes, aerotolerant anaerobes, and facultative anaerobes. While most species are obligate anaerobes, some can survive under aerobic conditions and are aerotolerant. There are almost 200 species of Clostridium,...
The case of the 10 year old boy, who experienced symptoms of abdominial pain, starving frequently but still does not gain any weight. He was then given a dipstick test. This is for urine and glucose test. After obtaining the result, it shows that he has higher...
Introduction Asthma is a long-term lung disease that causes chest tightness, wheezing, breathlessness, and coughing (Dodge & Burrows, 2018). In the U.S., there are 19 million adults and 6.2 million kids with asthma (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018). You can manage asthma by...
The gestational diabetes mellitus ,likewise perceive as GDM is a customary intricacy of certain pregnancies, when hyperglycemia appears throughout the being pregnant [1]. In light of the latest (from 2017) appraisals of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) , it gives the idea that gestational diabetes displays in 14% of...
