Understanding Child Fever and Cough
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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3Child's presenting condition.........................................................................................................3Nursing management of child condition .....................................................................................4Medication of diseases ................................................................................................................5Role of family during child hospitalization and its barriers........................................................6Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................92
INTRODUCTIONChild care and nursing constitutes to be one of the most critical and sensitive matters, asevery child has specific needs and requirements. One of the primary reasons for the excessivesensitivity is the inability of children to clearly express their suffering and the extent of impact ofillness which is made on their long term physical and mental health (Behlau, 2015). In respect tothe same, nursing becomes a serious challenge for the personnel handling children. It requires theconcerned people to undertake additional care of children, in comparison to other adults. In theinstant report a nursing management schedule is being developed for a five year old child who ispurportedly suffering Croup diseases. Further, it shall also illustrate the role of family inrecovery of the child and impact of hospitalization on a child.MAIN BODY OPTION 1Child's presenting conditionThe child presents condition of child is that he is suffering from the coughing from thelast one week and also suffering from mild fever as well. Child is also sneezing and nasalcongestion the major problem which is identity in child is coughing. He had cough from the lastone week and also suffering from the fever (Bennett, Dolin and Blaser, 2014). Along with thishe is also sneezing and nasal congestion. Along with this the child is also suffering from the coldbut he has no allergic from food of medications. Main problem of child is cough so the workingdiagnosis can be x-ray. X-ray won't reveal the most common reasons for a cough but its helps tohospitals to understand the problem of child. It is use by them to check the if any lung diseases isexits.It is identified that the child may be suffering from the Croup diseases. Symptoms of thisdisease are cough, stridor, hoarseness, and difficulty breathing which usually worsens at night.Along with this the child is also suffering from the fever, sneezing and nasal congestion. Allthese are signs of the Croup. This fist step of diagnosis is frontal X-ray. With the help of the x-ray they can measure the performance of neck (Bjornson, Williamson and Johnson, 2016). Otherfrom of investigation includes such as blood test and viral cultures. The viral inflection that cause3
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