Tuberculosis
What is Tuberculosis?
1. Tuberculosis is a chronic bacterial infection which can affect all the organs of the body but most commonly the lungs which is called pulmonary TB. It is a contagious disease which is spread primarily in the air in moisture droplets from an infected to an uninfected person. Tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis which is also called TB bacillus. This bacterium is covered in a waxy capsule protecting it from the body’s immune system, heat and drying out which can allow it to remain alive for a long time.
Contributing Factors
• Children and the elderly with weakened immune systems are vulnerable as their bodies cannot defend the bacteria due to not being at healthy capacity.
• Visitors and immigrants from areas with a high
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Charlotte Maxeke Hospital
They have young doctors who are full of energy and can treat you well and also have inpatient and specialist outpatient services which show that they treat a wide scope of ailments. Their contacts details are below:
17 Jubilee Road
Parktown
Johannesburg
011 488 4911
Private
1. Donald Gordon Medical Centre
They train and retain specialist and also recruit specialists who stand out in their respective fields which offer cutting edge research and patient care both in South Africa and internationally. There contact details are as follows:
21 Eton Road
Parktown
Johannesburg
2193
011 356 6000
2. Brooklyn Chest Hospital
This hospital in Cape Town specialises in the treatment of tuberculosis as well as general medical conditions. Here you are able to receive the best treatment as they know exactly what to look for in terms of treatment plans and are experts as they deal with TB often. Their contact details are below:
Stanberry Street
Rugby
Cape Town
021 508 7400
Bibliography
Definition of tuberculosis
1. Tuberculosis, a bacterial disease
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They face MDR there as well. Without proper and sufficient treatment, strains of new resistant TB are formed; it is difficult to treat and requires many expensive
My visit with Stefanie Ammiano, NP was terrific. The members of the staff were kind, professional and efficient. Stefanie saw me with very little wait time. She did a complete interview and assessment of my body. All of her suggestions were appropriate and thoughtful.
One is the bubonic plague; it is the most common one to catch. It refers to telltale buboes, painfully swollen nodes that appear around the groin, armpit and neck. Another one is the pneumonic plague; it is the most infectious one to get. It is the advanced stage of the bubonic plague. It is so contagious if someone even coughs around you, you are going to get it.
While Farmer is in Peru with Partners in Health he discovers that the problems faced in Haiti are seen there as well. While searching for the root of one case of MDR-TB in Peru, Farmer realizes that the strain had come to be by repeated improper therapy. This was due in part to the economic status of the patients. Their poverty led them to contract a disease that was untreatable, and furthermore, led to deaths that could have been stopped. While working for the MDR-TB patients, Farmer risked aggravating powerful people throughout the world because of a speech he made about the “myths of MDR-TB.”
Infection control refers to action devoted to policies and procedures that reduce the risk of spreading infections, reduce the occurrence of diseases caused by bacteria and viruses, parasite. The infectious diseases are normally spread by human to human, human to animal contact or by ingestion of food, droplet in the air, and contact with a surface that is the vehicle of the infective agent. H1N1, commonly known as the swine flu, a viral infection, was a cause of 2009 world-wide pandemic. The virus was first found in pigs, but a similar virus also found in humans. The virus spreads in a same manner as any other seasonal flu, mainly by droplets (small particles in the air) when an infected person coughs, sneezes or even talks, but also by touching
Antimicrobial resistance happens when microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses become resistant to the antimicrobial drug. Antimicrobial resistance is a global issue because without the proper antimicrobial medication procedures such as cesarean sections and cancer chemotherapy would become very high risk. The cost of healthcare and hospital stays would also dramatically increase for people with resistant illnesses. According to the World Health Organization, in 2016 490,000 people developed multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis globally, and drug resistance is starting to complicate the fight against HIV and malaria, as
The late 1800s and the early 1900s saw a rise in tuberculosis, a deadly infectious disease that affected a large portion of the population. Tuberculosis was highly contagious and spread quickly through the air, causing significant mortality rates. The disease was especially prevalent in urban areas where overcrowding, poverty, and unsanitary living conditions made it easier to spread. At the time, there were no effective treatments for tuberculosis, and many people believed that the disease was incurable. However, doctors and health officials observed that people who lived in clean, fresh air environments seemed to fare better in their fight against the disease.
7 / D.P7: Explain how different procedures maintain health and safety in a selected health or social care setting Maintaining health and safety in health and social care is extremely important to ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of all their service users as well as other individuals service providers may come in contact with in the setting. There are several procedures that help to maintain this health and safety however they can all vary between settings for example, health and safety procedures will be slightly different and more focused on certain areas in hospitals and especially in paediatric ward compared to in drop-in centres where the needs and risk to service users are slightly different. Some of the procedures used in health and social care to maintain health and safety include; infection control and prevention, safe moving and handling of equipment and individuals, food preparation and storage, storage and administration of medication and storage and disposal of hazardous substances.
The Bubonic Plague once destroyed 60% of a population once. The Bubonic Plague, or Yertis Pestis bacterium, affects the Immune System, and causes lymph nodes to swell. The Immune System is responsible for the body’s immunity to pathogens. It causes much malfunction in the body, leading up to death if untreated.
As this service requires a fee others prefer a free service. There are many private hospitals, dentists, pharmacists, medicines. Such as: Healthwise Ltd (private hospital - 3.3 miles away), i2 Healthcare Ltd (private hospital – 4.3 miles away), Polmedics Ltd (private dentist – 0.6 miles away), Divinedentistry (private dentist – 0.1 mile away), Hill Top Pharmacy (private
Tuberculosis and cancer are two diseases that Sontag focuses on throughout the pages we read. These two diseases are related because they are both regarded as an ominous incurable disease. Tuberculosis was deemed so mysterious and contagious that even uttering the word could cause the person to catch the fatal disease.
TASK 2 Infectious diseases are the invasion of host organisms, (microbes) which can be invisible to the eyes. The microbes are also known as pathogens. A microbe infects an organism (which is known as the host of the microbe). In a human host, the microorganism causes a disease by either disrupting an important body process or by stimulating the immune system to mount a defensive reaction. The pathogen, interferes with the normal functioning of the host and can lead to chronic wounds, gangrene, loss of an infected limb, and even death.
Distance and population results in a unreasonable cost lowering professionals and services accessed on reserves. The low amount of professionals on reserves and the low education levels make early diagnosis and treatment unlikely because of the lack of knowledge actor
These as a matter of fact, substantiate why poor people are susceptible to developing contagious chronic conditions like TB, poor ventilated house, overcrowded, no access to health services, unfavourable occupation and inadequate health information which could easily lead the spread of Tuberculosis in poor rural areas. Social or structural forces account for most epidemic disease. Poverty for example is an economic structural violence which has to be altered in order to attain and alleviate the burdens of disease amongst poor people. On the fact of it, a poor individual who works in the mining industries is more at risk of getting Tuberculosis than an individual who works in a well-ventilated office- social inequality.
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