EARLY DISEASE IN THE CHILD DETECTION

A mother must have the knowledge necessary to recognize disease at its earliest stages and to ensure that her infant receives prompt medical attention. She won't have any trouble picking up this information. She only needs to consider the signs of health, and she will immediately realize that any deviations from them must indicate the presence of disorder, if not actual illness. She must gradually familiarize herself with these shifts.

heath indicators

First, healthy performance of the body's different functions, regular supply demands that are neither excessive nor insufficient, and a similar regularity in excretions—both in terms of quantity and appearance—are all indications of good health.

Something can be learned from the healthy infant's figure, if this is watched. The child's body will appear to be so uniformly round that there won't be any angles to be seen in its entirety. Whether the limbs are bent or straight, every line makes up a piece of a circle. The extremities will feel solid and firm, and the joints cannot be seen unless the limbs are bent.

Even in good health, the tongue is always white, but it will also be free of sores, have cool skin, bright eyes, a clear complexion, a cool cranium, an evenly proportioned abdomen, and regular, effortless respiration.

On the other hand, when asleep, the infant will appear calm, every feature composed, its countenance displaying an expression of happiness, and perhaps occasionally, lit up with a smile. When the infant is awake, it will be happy and vivacious and, loving to be played with, will frequently break out in its merry, happy laugh.

Health can be said to exist in direct proportion to the presence of all of the aforementioned outward manifestations, and in direct measure to their partial or complete absence, disease will have taken their place.

We will, however, for the sake of clearness study the symptoms of disease as they are manifested individually by the countenance, the gestures, in sleep, in the stools, and by the breathing and cough.

relating to the face.

In good health, a child's countenance expresses calmness of body and mind; however, if the child is ill, this expression will change, and in a way that, to some degree, will reveal what component of the system is malfunctioning.

In cases where the source of the discomfort is in the head, the brows will furrow. If noted at an early stage and the appropriate treatments are used, its notice may prevent one of the most terrifying infantile complaints, "Water in the Head," which occurs frequently as the very first visible indication of anything being wrong.

If this warning sign goes unnoticed and the above disease threatens, soon the eyes will become fixed and staring, the head hot and moved uncomfortably from side to side upon the pillow, or lie heavily upon the nurse's arm, the child will start grinding its teeth while they are asleep and awake alarmed and screaming, their hands and feet will be hot but their hands and cheeks will be cold, their bowels will be obstinately costive, or their motions will be scanty and dark

The seat of the discomfort is in the abdomen if the lips are pulled apart to reveal the teeth or gums. If there is any question as to whether this sign exists, however, press on the stomach and observe the impact on the expression of the face. This sign will only be present when real pain is present.

If the pain is caused by nothing more than bowel irritation brought on by indigestion, relief will be brief, the sign will pass and reappear at the same time as the spasm may happen.

The child will fear motion and lie on its back with its knees bent up to the belly, the tongue will be loaded, and while the chest will be seen to heave with more than usual effort when breathing, the muscles of the belly will remain perfectly quiescent. This sign, however, will be more persistent if the disease is more serious and inflammation results.

The thorax hurts when the nostrils are quickly and upwardly drawn. However, this symptom will typically accompany chest inflammation, in which case the child will have a discolored face, eyes that are more or less fixed, and labored breathing. If the child's breathing pattern is observed, the chest will be seen to be immobile while the belly rapidly heaves with each inspiration.

Usually, there are some facial alterations prior to convulsions. The top lip may rarely be bluish or livid and will be drawn up. The face may alternately flush or become pale, there may be a small squint or a singular rotation of the eye around its own axis, and there may be a sudden burst of activity followed by a lull.

These symptoms may be considered premonitory and will occasionally appear several hours, if not days, prior to the attack. If they are caught in time and the proper medical care is sought, the fit may be completely avoided.

Eye health should always be taken into consideration. In good health, they are clear and bright, but in illness, they become dull and give the face a heavy appearance. However, after prolonged irritation, they will develop a remarkable degree of quickness and a kind of pearly brightness that is better understood through observation than it can be through description.

In order to acquire something, we should also consider the direction of the eyes. When a baby is first brought into the light, it's rare that both eyes are focused on the same thing; this rarely happens, without any tendency toward disease, and only serves to demonstrate that focusing both eyes on one thing is simply an acquired habit. However, when the child reaches the stage where their eyes are naturally drawn to one thing and then they lose that ability, this alone can be considered as a frequent precursor to diseases of the brain.

among the motions.

When a kid is healthy, their gestures are all simple and natural, but when they are ill, they start to deviate, and this alone can often indicate the type of disease they are suffering from.

Let's say that an infant has learned to support itself by keeping its head up; if sickness strikes, this ability will be lost and won't be reclaimed until heath returns; in the meantime, every posture and movement will be that of languor.

With two or three teeth pressing against and irritating the gums, the young child who has just learned to run alone from chair to chair will temporarily be taken off its feet and may lay languidly in its cot or on its nurse.

Crying and the legs being drawn up to the belly are indications of bowel disorder and discomfort. When you apply pressure to this area, the pain will intensify. Look to the bowel secretions themselves, and by their unwholesome nature, your assumptions about the origin of the disorder are immediately verified.

When a child is healthy, its hands are rarely raised above its mouth. However, if there is anything wrong with the head and pain is present, the child's hands will be raised continuously toward the head and face.

Even if it results from trivial causes, sudden starting while conscious or while sleeping should never be discounted. It frequently has connections to impending neurological disorders. If you find the child's thumb drawn in and firmly pressed onto the palm, with the fingers so compressed upon it, that the hand cannot be forced open without trouble, it may portend a convulsive fit, and such a suspicion is verified. The toenails will also have the same condition, albeit to a lesser extent; the hands and feet may also be puffy, and the foot and wrist may be bent inward.

The head being rigidly drawn backwards, an arm fastened firmly to the side or close to it, as well as one of the legs being drawn stiffly upwards, are additional and milder convulsion-threating gestures that should be taken into consideration. These symptoms, along with those listed above, are undeniably present if there are any changes in the child's regular routine: disturbed sleep, frequent crying fits, extreme irritability, alternately flushed and pale skin, sudden fits of vigor followed by just as sudden fits of languor, shortness of breath followed by a long and deep inspiration—all of these are warning signs of an impending attack.

of the slumber.

Infants who are healthy slumber in a calm, collected, and revitalizing manner. When a baby is very young, it spends the majority of its time sleeping in its cot when it isn't nursing. Although this pattern changes as the months go by, when the time for rest comes, the baby is rarely laid down before drifting off into a soundless slumber.

Not if you're sick. It will frequently refuse to be placed in its cot at all, forcing the nurse to pick up the baby and carry it in her arms. The baby will then slumber for a brief period of time, restless and disturbed.

The countenance will show any pain, no matter how slight; similarly to when awake, if there is anything wrong with the head, the eye brow will contract and teeth grinding will appear; if there is anything wrong with the belly, the lips will be drawn apart, revealing the teeth or gums, and in both cases there will be great restlessness and frequent startings.

within the chairs.

The movements of a newborn baby are dark in color and resemble pitch in both consistency and look. However, the first milk that is secreted in the mother's breast works as an aperient on the infant's bowels, and as a result, it is cleared away in about four and a half hours.

Beginning at this point and continuing throughout infancy, the stools will be lightish yellow in color, have the consistency of thin mustard, have little scent, be smooth in appearance and thus free of lumps or white curdled matter, and be passed without discomfort or a significant amount of wind. Additionally, the infant will undergo two, three, or even four of these evacuations per day as long as it is healthy. However, as it gets older, they won't happen as frequently. Instead, they'll get deeper and more solid as they age, though not as much as they do in adults.

Therefore, any deviation from the aforementioned characteristics is obviously a sign of something being wrong. Because a disordered state of the bowels is frequently the first sign of an impending disease, the nurse should be instructed daily to monitor the evacuations. The main things to pay attention to are their shape, color, and discharge technique. The stools are not natural if they appear very curdled, are excessively liquid, green, dark in color, or smell awful. In addition, it is important to keep in mind that while a motion in a healthy child is passed with little wind and feels squeezed out, a motion in a diseased child will be flung out with a lot of force, which indicates intense irritation. It's essential to note how many stools the child passed in the past four and a half hours so that, in the event that they do not receive their usual relief (and it must not be forgotten that children, although in perfect health, differ as to the precise number,)

respiration and coughing

A healthy infant breathes evenly between inspirations and expirations, quietly, consistently, inaudibly, and effortlessly. However, if airways or the lungs become inflamed, inspiration will become so rushed and quick—and possibly audible—within a few hours that attention only needs to be focused on the situation in order to be noticed right away.

Now, it is crucial to catch any deviations from a healthy breathing pattern as soon as possible, regardless of how minor they may be. Because many chest problems, despite being very severe in nature, may be stopped in their tracks if the doctor can diagnose them early; otherwise, they may be beyond the scope of art. Therefore, a parent should become familiar with how their kid breathes when they are healthy so that she can spot any changes as soon as they occur.

always turn to suspicion, always, and always never never ho a child a child a child a child a child a child a child a child a child a Hoarseness does not typically accompany a child's common cold, and these symptoms could be warning signs of an impending "croup" attack. Croup is a disease that progresses far too quickly, and because it affects vital organs that are essential to life, it demands the fastest and most determined course of action.

Dr. Cheyne made the following remarks, which are so eloquently illustrative and relevant to my current purpose that I can't help but include them: "The child may be seen to be excited, in variable spirits, more willing to laugh than cry, a little flushed, and occasionally coughing with a rough sound similar to that of the catarrhal stage of the measles in the days leading up to an attack of croup, which almost always occurs in the evening, likely of a day during which the child has been exposed to the weather, and frequently after catarrhal symptoms have existed for several days. However, more often than not, the patient is already asleep and in bed for some time before the illness that threatens him becomes apparent. Then, possibly without waking, he coughs up something very peculiar that is well known to anyone who has seen a croup attack; it sounds like the child had coughed through a brazen trumpet and is in fact a tussis clangosa; it penetrates the walls and floor of the apartment and startles the seasoned mother, "Oh! I am She rushes to the nursery where she discovers her infant soundly dozing off. But as they continue to care for him, the ringing cough, a single cough, soon becomes repeated; the patient is awakened, and then a new symptom is noted; the sound of his voice changes; pulsing and feeling as though the throat is swollen, it correlates with the cough; "etc.

How crucial it is for mothers to be aware of the warning signs of one of the worst illnesses that affect children, as if they are sent for medical attention in time, they will almost always be successful. However, if this "golden opportunity" is missed, the disease will rarely respond to treatment, no matter how well-chosen or persistent the measures.