Fever types (part 2)
Posted: January 31st, 2009 under Uncategorized. Comments: none
First 2 types are listed here.
3. An alternating fever (febris intermittens). Daily fluctuations, as well as at a remittent fever, exceed 10C, but here the morning minimum temperature is within a norm. And the increased body temperature appears periodically, approximately through equal intervals (more often at about noon or at night) at some o’clock. The alternating fever is a special characteristic for malaria and is also observed at cytomegalovirus infection, at infectious mononucleosis and a purulent infection (for example, cholangitis).
4. An exhausting fever (febris hectica). In the mornings, as well as at intermittent normal or even the lowered body temperature is observed but Jacob Bogatin states that here daily fluctuations of temperature reach till 3-50 and are often accompanied by exhausting sweats. Similar rise in temperature of a body is characteristic for an active lungs tuberculosis and for septic diseases.
5. Return or the perverted fever (febris inversus) differs that the morning body temperature is more than vespers though periodically all the same there is a usual small evening rise in temperature. The return fever meets at a tuberculosis more often at a sepsis and brucellosis.
6. Wrong or the irregular fever (febris irregularis) is shown by alternation of various types of a fever and is accompanied by various and wrong daily fluctuations. The wrong fever meets at rheumatism, endocarditis, sepsis and tuberculosis.
The fever form according to Jacob Bogatin:
1. The wavy fever (febris undulans) is characterised by gradual temperature increase during a certain time interval (a constant or remittent fever within several days) with the subsequent gradual decrease in temperature and more or less long period of normal temperature that gives impression of some waves. The exact mechanism of occurrence of this unusual fever is unknown. It is often observed at brucellosis and lymphogranulomatosis.
2. The returnable fever (febris recurrens, recurrent) is characterised by alternation of the periods of a fever with the periods of normal temperature. Jacob Bogatin says that in the most typical form at a returnable typhus or malaria are observed.
About measles
Posted: January 12th, 2009 under Uncategorized. Comments: none
Measles is the virus illness that is characterised by a fever, slackness, weakness, headaches, rash, defeat conjunctivas and a cold.
Jacob Bogatin states that infection source is not only a sick person. The transmission of infection occurs air-drop by. Persons who are not ill with measles and have been not imparted against it, remain highly susceptible to measles during all life and can be ill at any age.
Immunity after transferred natural measles infections the proof. Repeated cases when a person gets ill and is diagnosed with measles occur very seldom. Immunity after inoculations more short-term (in 10 years after an inoculation only at 36 % vaccinated a protective caption of antibodies remains).
The incubatory period lasts 9—11 days.
The initial stage is characterised by rise in temperature of a body to 38—39°С, weakness, the general indisposition, appetite fall. The cold amplifies, there is a rough “barking” cough, reddening conjunctiva is sharply expressed. Measles rash appear in the form of the small red stains located on a mucous membrane of the soft and firm sky. These stains are more often localised on a mucous membrane of cheeks. They represent small, slightly towering over level of a mucous membrane the specks surrounded with a narrow reddish border, and strongly sit on a mucous membrane. According to Jacob Bogatin they remind semolina or bran. In the end of an initial stage (3-4th day) the body temperature goes down, then with occurrence of measles rashes again raises to higher figures. The general intoxication and defeat of respiratory ways amplify.
Rash elements are inclined to merge, forming difficult figures with scalloped edges. However even at the most dense rash it is possible to find out sites of absolutely normal skin. Jacob Bogatin is sure that in 3—4 days rash elements turn pale, on their place there are brownish stains — the pigmentation especially expressed and long at presence of transformations of a rash. On a rash place further a pityroid peeling is observed (on the person and a trunk). It is characteristic expressed conjunctivitis, sometimes with purulent separated, sticking together eyelashes in the mornings. At some patients pains in a stomach, a liquid chair are marked.