insect bites

Question 0

west nile location

Answer 0

throughout us

Question 1

malaria vs west nile

Answer 1

malaria has high fever and chills, west nile is just fever and fatigue. Both have flu like sx

Question 2

malaria location

Answer 2

Africa ad south Asia.

Question 3

fleas

Answer 3

world wide in humid climates

Question 4

diseases associated with fleas

Answer 4

bubonic plague and Endemic typhus

Question 5

Bed bug attack plan.

Answer 5

Attack victims while sleeping

Question 6

ticks found in the us

Answer 6

Deer tick, dog tick, and wood tick.

Question 7

Diseases associated with ticks

Answer 7

Lyme disease

Rocky Mountain spotted fever

Question 8

Lyme disease sx

Answer 8

fever with “bull’s eye” rash

Question 9

Rocky Mountain spotted fever

Answer 9

rash, fever, headache with severe fatigue

everything can be treated with doxycycline

Question 10

burrows into skin in interdigital folds and deposits eggs

Answer 10

scabies, Rx only treatment with 5% premetherin

Question 11

Black widow and brown recluse

Answer 11

delayed intense pain, fever joint stiffness abdominal disturbance. Brown recluse has spreading ulcer wound.

Question 12

local anesthetic that depress cutaneous receptors

Answer 12

Phenol, and diphenhydramine

Question 13

Allergic Contact Dermatitis

Answer 13

Pramoxine and benzyl alcohol have lowest incidence

Question 14

systemic toxicity

Answer 14

Dibucaine and phenol have highest incidence.

do not use phenol and pregos >2% causes necrosis

Question 15

Avoid use in those with scabies, bacterial, and fungal infections

Answer 15

hydrocortisone 1%

Question 16

require medical referral

Answer 16

tick and spider bites

Question 17

Age of patient

Answer 17

<2 require medical refferal

Question 18

barbed stingers, stay in skin

Answer 18

Honey bees

Question 19

wasps

Answer 19

high places

Question 20

hornets

Answer 20

low places

Question 21

yellow jackets

Answer 21

low places

Question 22

can sting and bite simultaneously

Answer 22

fire ants

Question 23

head lice season

Answer 23

august through september

Question 24

lice maturity time

Answer 24

8 days from hatching

Question 25

systemic infections

Answer 25

body lice…. typhus/ trench fever

Question 26

PYRETHRINS (RID)

Answer 26

Block nerve impulse transmission paralysis and death

do not use with chrys allergy
do not use in pts <2

head/pubic lice

Question 27

PERMETHRINS (NIX)

Answer 27

Disrupts sodium channel of nerve cells, delays repolarizationparalysis and death

head lice