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Question 1

What is a baby’s natural immunity?

Answer 1

Where antibodies are passed from the mother to the unborn baby through the placenta, immunity can also be passed through breastfeeding.

Question 2

What is a vaccination?

Answer 2

The term is used for getting a vaccine, it is an oral or injection dose which helps to protect children against a range of serious and potentially fatal diseases.

Question 3

What is meant by the term immunisation?

Answer 3

This refers to the process of both getting the vaccine and becoming immune to the disease through a vaccine.

Question 4

How do vaccines work?

Answer 4

• Vaccines trigger the immune system to respond and the white blood cells produce antibodies to attack the microbe.
• The microbe is made harmless therefore destroyed quickly.
• If a microbe attacks the body, the memory cells produce antibodies to attack and destroy it quickly.

Question 5

What are some general SIGNS of illness?

Answer 5

• tiredness/disturbed sleep
• lack of desire to play
• becoming clingy
• irritable behaviour
• crying

Question 6

What are some symptoms of illness?

Answer 6

-vomiting
-diarrhoea
-high temperature
-breathing difficulties
-fitting
-develops rash
-unresponsive
-cough
-runny/blocked nose
-headache
swollen glands

Question 7

When do you call an ambulance?

Answer 7

• if the child is unresponsive
• if the child has meningitis
• if child is ill after 24 hours of food poisoning

Question 8

What are the 10 childhood ailments and diseases?

Answer 8

1. common cold
2. chicken pox
3. food poisoning
4. gastroenteritis
5. measles
6. mumps
7. pertussis (whooping cough)
8. rubella (german measles)
9. scarlet fever
10. tonsillitis

Question 9

What are the symptoms of gastroenteritis?

Answer 9

• vomiting
• diarrhoea
• signs of dehydration

Question 10

What are the 4 needs of an unwell child?

Answer 10

• physical
• social
• emotional
• intellectual

Question 11

Why may some children not have a healthy diet?

Answer 11

• family on low income
• no time
• lack of nutritional knowledge
• media encouraging unhealthy eating

Question 12

How can you prepare a child for a hospital stay emotionally?

Answer 12

• talking to child
• help to understand situation
• calm nerves
• comfort from hospital characters on shows and movies

Question 13

How can you prepare a child for a hospital stay intellectually/physically?

Answer 13

• teach about their own health

- educate them on what happens in hospital and why they are there

Question 14

How can you prepare a child for a hospital stay socially?

Answer 14

visits from parents and loved ones