Midterm Flashcards
T/F: Fevers are the result of damage to the body caused by germs.
False
What part of the brain regulates body temp?
Hypothalamus
Blood iron levels are (higher/lower) with a fever.
lower
What should the patient be checked for when they have a fever?
Dehydration usually due to vomiting and diarrhea
T/F: Infants get dehydrated more rapidly than adults or children.
True
Aspirin use in children can cause ___ ____, a very serious and sometimes fatal condition.
Reyes Syndrome
T/F: If brain injury results from a febrile illness it is because of the very high fever.
False it’s b/c the illness was in the brain or meninges
T/F: Febrile seizures do not always occur at the highest point of the fever.
True
If the fever is below ___degrees Fahrenheit, it should be allowed to run its course since they rarely last more than 3-5 days.
106
T/F: Alcohol rubs and ice water baths should never be used to lower a fever.
True (lukewarm water baths are acceptable though.)
Should one warmly bundle a child who is febrile?
No!
Febrile seizures occur in about _% of the population.
6%
T/F: Febrile seizures do not increase risk of subsequent epilepsy.
True
Can chiropractic adjustments can be used to reduce a fever?
Maybe, we normalize the nervous systems control of the process which may make the fever go up, down, or even have no change.
What is the neurodystrophic model?
subluxation as a cause of lowered resistance thus making it more susceptible to infection.
What was attributed to having a big part in the problem of resistant microbes?
Use of antibiotics in agriculture
Women who took the most antibiotics over a 17-year period had double the risk of what cancer?
Breast
What is the chiropractic view of the germ theory?
Germs alone do not cause infectious disease, they are the ‘necessary condition for’ a given infection rather than the cause of the infection.
List some other health issues overuse/inappropriate use of antibiotics have been linked to:
Otitis media
diarrhea
yeast infections
childhood asthma
T/F: There is no such thing as a vaccine that doesn’t have some undesirable side effects.
True
T/F: The majority of reported measles cases in recent years were only in children that were unvaccinated.
False, …were occurring in fully-vaccinated children
(Bacterial/viral) vaccines are suspected to be involved in genetic damage and autoimmune disorders.
Viral
What is the chiropractic definition of hygiene?
The restoration of natural and healthful environmental conditions which have been made abnormal by civilized life.
T/F: If the immune system isn’t stimulated early in life by germs, it overreacts later to allergy-inducing substances.
True
T/F: Children who live on a farm are more likely to have asthma and allergies than an urban-raised child.
False
Use of antibiotics in the 1st yr of life led to a ___ times more likely chance of developing asthma.
4.05
Heavy use of antibiotics in children associated with increased risk of what cancer?
Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma (also increased risk from heavy use of NSAIDS)
T/F: A person who had chickenpox may have a better immune system to fight off gliomas before they become dangerous.
True
An increase in viral infections (like varicella, scarlet fever, measles, rubella, mono & mumps) have an increased or decreased prevalence of CHD?
Decreased (childhood viral infections decreased coronary risk.)
T/F: Arsenic decreases growth in any amount.
False, in small amounts acts as a growth promoter; becomes toxic/lethal at moderate/large amounts respectively.
T/F: Strenuous exercise can cause immune suppression.
True and structural damage (moderate exercise better)
What is the most common diagnosis of children?
Otitis media (OM is also 2nd MC diagnosis in medicine) -1994
T/F: 85% of kids not receiving antibiotics recover completely w/out complications.
True
What is the most common operation for children?
Insertion of tympanostomy tubes
What are the top 2 causes of OM?
infection
allergy
What is the active ingredient in Tylenol? Advil?
Tylenol=acetaminophen
Advil=ibuprofen
Fever (increases/decreases) interferon production.
Increases
T/F: Antipyretics may prolong flu signs and symptoms.
True
Being in daycare during the first year of life was linked to a decrease in which childhood cancer prevalence?
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Which antibiotic trial for otitis media was stopped because of concerns over liver failure?
Ketek
What is the official stance on treatment for otitis media?
Wait & see
The name of the DO that discovered a ‘new’ way of treating OM with manipulation?
Dr. Block
How can tensor veli palatini dysfunction lead to OM?
This muscle controls opening/closing of Eust.tube
Nerve supply for tensor veli palatine?
Controlled by superior cervical gangion, which gets innervations from C1-C4
It is also suggested people with OM remove __ from their diet.
Dairy
According to BJ, what 3 things must a cell have to be healthy?
Proper quantities of OXYGEN,
Proper quantity & quality of NUTRITION,
Proper quantity & quality of VITAL ENERGY
Children that were not breastfed had a __x more chance to develop asthma.
1.5
