Facts
1. SARS is caused by a coronavirus (SARS-associated coronavirus or SARS-CoV).
2. This infection can be spread easily from close person-to-person contact.
3. There is no medication that is known to treat SARS. Treatment is supportive.
4. During the 2003 outbreak, approximately 25% of people had severe respiratory failure and 10% died.
Risk Factors
1. Recent travel to mainland China, Hong Kong, or Taiwan or close contact with ill people with a history of recent travel to these areas
2. Employment in an occupation at risk for SARS-CoV exposure, including a health-care worker with direct contact with a patient having SARS-CoV, or a worker in a laboratory that contains live SARS-CoV
3. Relationship with a cluster of cases of atypical pneumonia without an alternative diagnosis.
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Sign & Symptoms
1. Fever [ 38 °C (100 °F) or higher ] with chills
2. Headache
3. Muscle aches
4. Poor appetite
5. Nausea, vomiting
6. Diarrhea
7. Lethargy
8. Sore throat
9. Cough
10. SARS may occasionally lead to pneumonia, either direct viral pneumonia or secondary bacterial pneumonia.
Diagnosis
1. Enzyme-linked immunoassays (EIA) or reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests
2. Chest X-ray
3. Lymphocyte counts in the blood are usually decreased, and platelet counts may also be low.
4. Serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and creatinine phosphokinase (CPK) levels may be increased
Treatment
1. Supplemental oxygen and mechanical ventilation
2. Severely ill patients should be admitted to the intensive-care unit.
3. No medication has been proven to treat SARS effectively, and treatment is largely supportive and directed by the patient's clinical condition.
4. Supportive with antipyretics
5. Medical caregivers need to follow strict policies on gloves, masks, gowns, and other protocols to avoid becoming infected.
Prevention
Isolation and quarantine remain the most effective means to prevent the spread of SARS.
1. Frequent hand washing with soap and water, or using an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
2. Avoiding close contact with sick people
3. Avoid exposure to budy fluids
4. Use of universal precautions, disinfection of surfaces for fomites
5. Use of a surgical mask are recommended.
6. Wash personal items in hot, soapy water including the eating utensils and dishes, bedding and clothing of someone with SARS.
References
1. http://www.medicinenet.com/severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_sars
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome
3. http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sars
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I was able to overcome senile dementia via a complete naturopathic process.
ReplyDeleteAbout two years ago, when I was 56, I started feeling foggy and had occasional memory lapses. My wife, Mary, started to notice it, too, but I also have hearing issues so she thought that was the problem. My memory problems worsened very gradually over the years, and we lived with it, compensating as needed. I became less social. After some months thereafter, it got to the point where we couldn’t keep making excuses or ignoring it. I had gone from doing our grocery shopping without a list to going with a list, to having the list but not buying what was on it.
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It was after the completion of the herbal therapy I had started to experience a great deal of cognitive improvement when it came to rational decision making.
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