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Semester 5 PMNM Exam 9 > Childhood Illness > Flashcards

Childhood Illness Flashcards

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Rash/Headache - Strep throat

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Underarm, elbow and groin skin creases - brighter red than the rest of the rash

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Rash/Headache - Strep throat - Scarlatina Rash - fades

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Generally in about 7 to 14 days
As it fades, skin might peel around finger tips, toes, and groin areas
Can last up to several weeks

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Rash/Headache - Strep throat - Scarlatina rash -

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Not all with strep will present with the rash

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Rash/Headache - Strep throat - differential diagnosis

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Pharyngitis/Tonsillitis
Viral infection 
Bacterial infection
Stomatitis 
Peritonsilar abcess
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Rash/Headache - Strep throat - to know if cause is viral or bacterial

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Swab throat

Rapid strep screen

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Rash/Headache - Strep throat - tx

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Antibiotics

Penicillin or cephalosporin

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Croup - s/s

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harsh barking cough
Inspiratory stridor
Hoarseness

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Croup - usually worse when

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At night for several hours then resolves

Can reoccur over several nights

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9
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Croup - who gets it

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Male more than Female

Usually under age of 6

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Croup - tx

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Could do nothing - advise to breath in warm moist air (shower) and cool night air
Corticosteroid (dexa)
Or corticosteroid orally for three days - tastes bad

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Conjunctivitis - s/s

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mattery eyes

pupulent yellow/green discharge

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Persistent pikeye can be a sign of an underlying illness

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Rheumatic diseases
Also seen in Kawasaki
Inflammatory bowel diseases too

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Types of conjunctivitis

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Can be bacterial, viral, or allergic (will see the white stringy eosinophils with allergic)

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Conjunctivitis - Bacterial tx

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Topical antibiotic ointment or drops
Highly contagious
Warm moist compress, symptomatic care

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Fever with itchy rash - Chicken pox s/s

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Teardrop vesicular lesions scattered over entire body

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Chicken pox - tx

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symptomatic care
Watch for secondary infection
Could do antiviral within first 48 hours
Incubation 10-21 days after contact

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Chicken pox - contagious

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Most contagious 2 days before the rash!

Contagious until all lesions have scabbed over - usually 7-10 days after last crop of lesions present

18
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Chicken pox - risk of severe complications like

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Bacterial skin infections
Pneumonia
KEY - vaccination

19
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Not eating much, cold-runny nose - ear TM does not look good - otitis media

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Common for them to have had a runny nose recently

Pain first few days and then just can’t hear

20
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Otitis media - tx

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Don;t typically have to treat but under 2 years - good to give antibiotic for tx
Amoxicillin
Ibuprofen as needed every 6-8 hrs for pain or acetaminophen

21
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Clear runny nose, worsening cough, vomit from time to time, wheezing - nasal congestion, lots of secretions with breath sounds - diffuse ronchi

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Bronchiolitis

22
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Bronchiolitis - most probable cause

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Respiratory Syncytial Virus

23
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Bronchiolitis - tx

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Symptomatic care
Bronchodilator - albuterol, nebulizer
Corticosteroids
Good hand washing

24
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11 yr old male coughing past 2 weeks - cough so hard can’t catch breath - vomit sometimes - home schooled because did not do immunizations - whooping cough

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Pertussis

25
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Pertussis - confirmed by what

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nasal pharyngeal culture positive for Bordetella pertussis

26
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Pertussis - described as

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100 day cough

Incubation 7-21 days

27
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4 yr old cough - quiet child and can’t talk in full sentences - breathy - trying to catch breath by expanding chest - hx of wheezing - dad smokes - bad cough every spring and fall and lasts one month or two

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Asthma
Increased work of breathing
Wheezes

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Asthma - tx

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Albuterol nebulizer x 2 in office and instruction for inhaler with a spacer for home use
Prednisolone syrup in divided doses
PO for 7-10 days
Follow up appt next day

29
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Asthma - description

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Reversible airway obstruction/airway hyper responsiveness
Bronchoconstriction
Airway inflammation
Mucous formation

30
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Asthma - diagnosis clinical presentation (some genetics) of

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Recurrence
Reactivity (trigger)
Responsiveness to BD

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