Cases Study
1 Pediatric
‘Stubjective and objective data
‘Mrs. King brings 25 years old Billy to the pediatrician’s office because he has “been irritable
and feverish since last might”. Further history reveals that Billy also had a runny nose and
cough for two days, and that his appetite and fluid intalee have decreased since the fever
started Billy is otherwi
jealthy, this is the first episodic illness. His physical examination
reveals slight, sritable, 2.5 years-old gia, pulling at ears, temperature of 102°F, nasal
congestion with clear discharge, tympanic membranes red and bulging bilaterally, pharyme
slightly red without exudates. Chest clear, abdomen soft without hepatorplenom egaly ISM)
an no meningeal signs.
The pedriaticien diognoses an upper respiratory infection (URI) and bilsteral otitis media
(BOM) and order amoxicillin 250 mg td s for 10 days
Etology
URlis often mischaracterized as aa upper respiraiory infection. The truth stands I URL
Acute Retpicatory Infections. URLinclude upper respiratory tract and lower sempiratory tract.
URlis a respiratory infection that lasted up to 14 days. The definition of the respiratory tract
is the organ from the nose to alveolus, and surrounding organs such as: sinus, middle ear
space and pleura.
‘The mejosity of respiratory tract infections just be mild such as cough and cold and does not
require treatment wath antibictics, however, the child will suffer pneumonia when lung
infection is not treated with antibictics resulted in death.
The etiology of most of the upper airway disease this virusis and is notrequired antibiotic
therepy. By Streptococcus pharyngitis is rarely found in infants. If foundlto be treated with
antibiotics penicillin, all acute ear inflammation should receive antibiotics
URI can be transmitted through saliva, blood, meezing, breathing air containing germs are
inhaled by healthy people kesaluran breathing