This article discusses health homeostasis and its impact on the body through a clinical case scenario involving intracerebral haemorrhage. It explains the processes involved in homeostatic imbalance and how it affects the nervous system and other biological processes.
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Running Head: HEALTH HOMEOSTASIS0 Health Homeostasis JUNE 9, 2018
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HEALTH HOMEOSTASIS1 Clinical Case Scenario As reported in the clinical case study, it has been shown that a patient (57 year old) develops some symptoms due to careless towards taking proper medication for hypertension and lipidaemia. And after the laboratory examination through the CT scan of the body, it was observedthatthepatienthad‘IntracerebralHaemorrhage’involvingbasalganglia (Radiopaedia, 2018), for which the causes were long standing hypertension and stroke. Stroke is associated with the massive physiological disturbance of the vascular and neuronal function. Intracerebral bleed or intracerebral haemorrhage refers to the state when blood suddenly starts leaking in the brain damaging the brain tissue. The symptoms were headache, nausea, left arm and leg weakness (half paralysis). Also he had a habit of smoking in his adult life which is harmful for the human health. The effect or the impact of the homeostasis can be seen on the body parts or tissues which affect the functioning of the body, it may have an effect on the organs system such as nervous system, brain, eyes, brain tissue or ventricle and the blood vessels. Thus, the intracerebral bleed led to the homeostatic disturbance as the patient’s mental health was disturbed, his brain was not functioning properly. Homeostasis As, to be stated health ‘Homeostasis’ refers to the state of being stable, balanced within a cell or the body. It is the ability of a human being to keep the internal environment sound. It exists or observed when the internal conditions of the human body are within the normal limits. Therefore, it can be said that the homeostasis regulates the organisms, and their internal environment which is further maintained by different mechanisms, and these mechanisms have atleast 3 components, which are the sensor, integrating receptor and an effector. And
HEALTH HOMEOSTASIS2 homeostatic disturbance occurs when there is any change in the internal conditions of the being that means when it goes out of normal limits. It is an essential feature of human beings and the endocrine system play a vital role in the homeostasis because hormones manage the functioning the body cells (Bailey, 2017). Processes involved in the clinical case study. The processes describing about the homeostatic imbalance of the human in the clinical case scenario can be described as ‘Thermoregulation’, which is involved in the diagnosis of the symptoms of the patient leading to ‘Intracerebral bleed’ which affects the normal functioning of the human body. Biological processes are also affected in this process, and when disruption occurs in those biological processes leading to neuronal dysfunction which further may result into numerous phenotypes. Under the state of intracerebral bleed, nervous system is concerned (Fletcher, 2017).The portion of the brain causing homeostatic imbalance is hypothalamus, which as per the case study depicted the symptoms of severe headache, and others. Moreover, mentioning about the cardiac monitor or the cardiovascular tissues which indicated the normal sinus rhythm which means a normal heartbeat which is a regular, narrow complex heart rhythm at 60-100bpm (Burns, 2017). Since, ofall the other body systems, nervous system is the major controller of the homeostasis because it provides regulation and it monitors all the other systems in the human body as well as other organisms.