Frostbite First Aid Measures
Frostbite is, literally, frozen body tissue - usually skin but sometimes deeper - and must be handled carefully to prevent permanent tissue damage or loss. Children are at greater risk for frostbite than adults, both because they lose heat from their skin more rapidly than adults and because they may be reluctant to leave their winter fun to go inside and warm up. You can help prevent frostbite in
cold weather by dressing your child in layers, making sure he comes indoors at regular intervals, and watching for frostnip, frostbite's early warning signal.
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Frost Bite
The damage which occurs to skin and underlying
soft tissue due to prolonged exposure to extreme
cold climate is known as frost bite. Most commonly affected areas are the extremities like hands, feet, nose and ears. It generally involves the parts which are far away from the heart.
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Hypothermia
Hypothermia is a condition in which the body temperature is below normal temperature. Prolonged exposure to
cold climatic conditions and even some metabolic and some other body ailments can lead to failure of body?s heat regulating mechanism. This failure leads to more loss of heat to surroundings then what body can produce. Low body temperature is caused by excessive cold climatic conditions. several symptoms to be looked for and to provide effective measures to rewarm the patient
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Scorpion Bite
Of above thousand species of scorpions some twenty have the poison enough in their venom to affect the humans. So if unfortunately you got a scorpion sting, stay cool as the chances of being getting poisoned is only 2%.On a regional basis most poisonous scorpions are the one from México, South of Americas, Africa?s(Arizona),and some Middle East countries. Scorpions vary in size from 3 to 8 inches in length.
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Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is one of the complex mental diseases characterized by inability to think, behave and to cope up with the activities in the surrounding world. Male sex is more commonly affected as compared to females. Mostly the onset of disease is in younger ages that are in early thirties. In India alone some five million people are suffering from schizophrenia.
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Epilepsy
Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder characterized by recurrent, disordered, uncontrolled movements which may or may not result in
loss of consciousness. Depending on the type of epilepsy some people may just stare in a blank manner while some may get true seizures. Incidence of epilepsy is most common among children and in older ages. About 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy. Epilepsy is usually controlled but not cured with medications. Epilepsy should be understood as a group of diseases in which the electrical activity of the brain is affected. Not all epilepsy syndromes are lifelong. Some epileptic syndromes occur at a particular age in childhood and get cured as the age advances. Epilepsy runs in families but it does not have any sexual preponderance.
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Home Management Of Fever
High fever or
Heat Stroke is a condition when body temperature reaches 104 F or 40 C. It can be caused by heavy exercise, severe bacterial infections and sometimes it is due to high temperatures of the surrounding environment. A fever is not a illness, but it's a sign that something is wrong in the body. Fevers aren't necessarily bad. In fact, fevers play a role in helping your body fight with infections. Generlly fevers go away in a relatively small time usually within a few days. Not all fevers need treatment with medications.
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Severe Vomiting
Vomiting can be defined as a forceful expulsion of gastric contents. Severe vomiting can occur in a number of medical conditions like, Cycad
poisoning, Cyclic vomiting syndrome, Addison?s disease, One of the types of severe vomiting is cyclic vomiting syndrome. Incidence is equal in both sex can lead to nausea,
migraine,
indigestion.
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Foreign Body In Eye
Any particle or material gets into eye is called as foreign body in eye. It can be serious or non serious depending on whether it is a superficial one or penetrating one. Incidences of foreign body don?t vary according to sex. A foreign body can be any object like metal particle, glass, wood or sand or dust particle which unfortunately gets falls in the eye. It can either remain superficially adhered to the
cornea or can even penetrate the eye globe. Penetrating eye foreign bodies are generally the one with momentum and they speedily penetrate the globe. Incidences of foreign body don?t vary according to sex.
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Snake Bite
First thing to be done in case of a snake bite is to calm down the patient. 70% of snakebites are from non-poisonous species. Of the remaining 30%, only half will actually involve injecting venom. So any
stress or panic will adversely affect the blood pressure.
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