Healthcare Case Study: Asthma, Allergy, and Anaphylaxis Scenarios

This healthcare assignment presents multiple case scenarios focusing on children with asthma and allergies. The scenarios detail situations involving allergic reactions to dust, pollen, nuts, and dairy products, leading to symptoms like sneezing, coughing, and breathing difficulties, and in some cases, anaphylaxis. The assignment emphasizes emergency management, including administering medications like Ventolin and EpiPen, and implementing first aid procedures. The student's work highlights the importance of recognizing allergic triggers, following correct medication administration procedures, and understanding the steps needed to manage both mild and severe allergic reactions in a healthcare setting. References to relevant research articles are included.

HEALTHCARE ASSIGNMENT
Name of the Student
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Case study 4
Scenario 1
• The case study is about Sophie who is a only four and half year.
• She had been suffering from severe asthma and had allergies to dust and pollens.
• After an outdoor activity at 8.30 P.M the child starred sneezing and coughing .
• It can be said that as he child was running around the playground, the dust and the pollen grains triggered
the allergy.

Scenario 1
While administering the medicines, the following things should be kept in mind;
• Any kind of distractions must be avoided.
• The child must be asked about the cause of the allergy.
• It must be checked that the patient is receiving the correct medications and at the correct dose.

Case scenario 2
• After almost 1 hour, the child started sneezing and coughing severely.
• She was suffering breathing problems and probably had an asthma attack.
• So it is very necessary to review the asthma management plan of the child.
• The child was administered with ventolin (albuterol), 2 puffs with a time gap of 1 minute.

Case scenario 2
• During the emergency condition of the child, a patient should be made to sit in the upright
position.
• She should be administered 4 separate puffs in the way that one puff should be put in the spacer.
• After that the child should take four breathes from the spacer.
• The process must be repeated till four puffs have been taken.
• The careers must wait for 4 minutes and then if the condition dues not get improved another four
puffs must be provided.
• The career must keep in mind the correct procedure to store the inhalers.
• The inhaler should be kept in the mouthpieces by pointing in the downward directions.

Case scenario 3
• In the case scenario 3, it had been shown that the child had fallen asleep as soon the symptoms
of allergy slowed down.
• She woke up from her sleep and was coughing and sneezing severely.
• At that she needed first aid for her asthma attack.
• She should be taken to the hospital but till the time the ambulance comes she required first aid
for management of asthma.

Case scenario 3
• During the emergency condition of the child, she should be made to sit in the upright position.
• She should be administered 4 separate puffs in the way that one puff should be put in the spacer.
• After that the child should take four breathes from the spacer.

Case study 5
Case scenario 1
• The case study of the case study is a four year old boy named Belly.
• He had allergies to nuts and dairy based foods.
• The allergy was identified when his face got swollen slightly after he ate chocolates.
• Anaphylaxis is the most severe form of allergy which can even lead the death of the person
(Focke-Tejkl et al., 2015).
• This critical condition requires the administration of adrenalin in order to prevent the person from
dying (Grabenhenrich et al., 2016).

Case scenario 1
• To remove the hazard immediately, the chocolate in the hands of the child must be swiped out.
• The condition of anaphylaxis should be considered to be an emergency and potential life
threatening condition.

Case scenario 1
• For administering EpiPen, the specific procedure must be followed.

References
• Price, A., Ramachandran, S., Smith, G. P., Stevenson, M. L., Pomeranz, M. K., &
Cohen, D. E. (2015). Oral allergy syndrome (pollen-food allergy
syndrome). Dermatitis, 26(2), 78-88.
• Focke-Tejkl, M., Weber, M., Niespodziana, K., Neubauer, A., Huber, H., Henning,
R., ... & Niederberger, V. (2015). Development and characterization of a
recombinant, hypoallergenic, peptide-based vaccine for grass pollen
allergy. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 135(5), 1207-1217.
• Jasar, D., Curcik-Trajkovska, B., Filipovski, V., & Kubelka-Sabit, K. (2016). Food allergy
diagnostics: immunologic reactions to foods and food additives. Journal article]
Journal of Hygienic Engineering and Design, 15, 15-22.
• Haggan, M. (2018). Professional: Allergy: Getting serious. AJP: The Australian
Journal of Pharmacy, 99(1176), 30.

• Grabenhenrich, L. B., Dölle, S., Moneret-Vautrin, A., Köhli, A., Lange, L., Spindler,
T., ... & Scherer, K. (2016). Anaphylaxis in children and adolescents: the European
Anaphylaxis Registry. Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 137(4), 1128-
1137.
• Song, T. T., & Lieberman, P. (2015). Epinephrine in anaphylaxis: doubt no
more. Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology, 15(4), 323-328.