Stomatitis Essays

In both ‘Digging’ and ‘Follower’, Heaney creates a tone of respect and admiration for his father and grandfather that permeate all aspects of the poems. He portrays them as being strong, skilful and dedicated; this is achieved through the use of vivid descriptions, structure and careful placement of words with connotations. In ‘Follower’, Heaney portrays his father as skilled and knowledgeable. Throughout out the poem, Heaney uses specialized terms to describe his father’s job, such as ‘shafts’

Introduction Stomatitis areata migrans (SAM) was first described by Cooke in 1955 1. It has been considered a more extensive involvement of the same process found in the geographic tongue. Geographic tongue is an interesting lesion of unknown etiology, although it has been related to emotional stress. Geographic tongue is also known as wandering rash of tongue, benign migratory glossitis, glossitis areata exfoliativa and erythema migrans. The condition consists usually of multiple areas of desquamation

protective function of the oral mucosa. Relations have been reported between increased age, denture use, and oral mucosal disturbances, including denture stomatitis, an inflammatory condition in complete denture wearers, angular cheilitis, oral candidosis, and traumatic problems [36–38]. According to a study the odds of finding hyperplasia, stomatitis, and angular cheilitis increase 3-fold in denture wearers [36]. Such problems could expose the individual to internal and external pathogens, and their

Oral candidiasis is the most common fungal infection in the oral cavity and is an opportunistic infection. The most common type of oral candidiasis is called pseudomembranous candidiasis, also known as, oral thrush and it is caused by an overgrowth of the fungal genus called Candida. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Candida species are normal inhabitants of the mouth, throat, and the rest of the gastrointestinal tract. Oral candidiasis is also known as a mycosis, a fungal

U.S government Case Study 2 Antimicrobial Drugs Overview: Gerald Lake, 33 years old, endocarditis an infection he acquired from IV drug use. Vancomycin  1gm IV q6h set to infuse over 1 hour, after 15 minute, half of the antibiotic has been infused. Vancomycin is used only when the other antibiotics fail to resolve an infection. Vancomycin brand name is Vancovin. It is in a class of medication called glycopetide antibiotics. Biological half-life 4h to 11 h for adult. Action:  The medication acts by

The main purpose of the kidneys is to filter and reprocess blood. It 's an extremely complex process and cannot simply be likened to a sieve (“it is a device for separating wanted elements from unwanted material or for characterizing the particle size distribution of a sample, typically using a woven screen such as a mesh or net”). Wastes and extra water are removed to become urine, which flows from the kidneys to the bladder to be excreted whenever we feel the need to urinate. But the normal proteins

effect. Clinical features combine erythema, edema and sensitivity, followed by painful ulceration and mucosal bleeding. Patients with severe OM are unable to eat, speak or swallow due to pain. The OM prevalence in children with cancer is 52—81%.Stomatitis and oral mucositis is a term used to describe inflammation of the oral mucosa as a common and debilitating side effects caused by chemotherapy and radiotherapy for head and neck are used. Honey is a natural substance made

Objective: Amongst the various routes of drug delivery for curing the buccal disease, mucoadhesive disc is one of them. The aim of this work was to design a mucoadhesive disc and formulation studies. Material&Methods: Discs containing 10% stem bark extract of ziziphus jujuba were formulated by Zinc Oxide, Glycerin, Carbopol 34, PVP K30 and Gelatin as excipients. These materials were mixed and changed to granules and then discs through direct compression. Properties such as in vitro and in vivo mucoadhesion

It is defined only by symptoms and the symptomatic triad rarely occurs simultaneously in one patient and due to overlapping stomatitis. Symptomatically, chronic pain conditions like traumatic/inflammatory/immune-mediated stomatitis or orofacial pain disorders present similar to BMS. Foremost it is essential to discriminate between primary and secondary BMS. Thus a thorough case history and a careful examination are the key to

CYTARABINE Cytarabine (arabinofuranosyl cytidine or ara-C) is a chemotherapeutic antimetabolic agent, used to treat cancers of white blood cells like acute myeloid leukemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Its chemical name is 1β-arabinofuranosylcytosine. It kills cancer cells by interfering with synthesis of DNA, when the cell is in S-phase of the cell cycle. It is also called cytosine arabinoside implying that it combines arabinose sugar with cytosine base. Usually, cytosine pairs with deoxyribose

Case report A 42-year-old Thai man came to the Institute of Dermatology with intractable stomatitis and itchy rash on perianal area for 1 year. Initially, the cutaneous lesions started with few discrete vesicles and bullae on his face, scalp, right arm and itchy rash on perianal area. Later, the lesions on his scalp and perianal area had gradually progress into jagged mass. The lesions became intensely itchy and occasionally painful without tendency to heal. The patient had no other systemic symptom

BOUVIER DES FLANDRES ORIGIN AND HISTORY It is almost impossible to trace the origin of the Bouvier des Flandres. During the last decade of the nineteenth century a program of selective breeding of the dog’s native to Belgium was begun under the guidance of Professor Adolph Reul, a veterinary surgeon and author of “Les Races de Chiens” (1894). The Bouvier is mentioned, “for the most part, a shepherd dog or a dog that resembles him in general make-up but who is bigger, fiercer, more aggressive