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Bianeth Salvidrez

August 25, 2014

A&P 1 Case Study 1

1) I would say that this patients signs are that the factory walls are lead poisoned which made them feel ill.

2) The risk factors in this case study are where the people lived and the financial circumstances they faced.

3) I don’t think lead is a toxin.

4) None of the people in this story exhibit an idiopathic lead poisoning because the cause for every case lead poisoning is known.

5) Yes, a syndrome is a collection of signs, symptoms, and degenerative processes that occur together in a particular disease. In this case the children show symptoms of joint pain, excessive salivating, seizures, and personality changes all around the same time.

6) In this case the histopathology became relevant when test were taken of patients blood and urine.

7) Morbidity: There is insufficient information. In this case there are certainly a high number of children who had lead poisoning however I assume it would depend on the population of the area there could be a lot more people than we think there was. Prevalence: Yes. The case itself says that the Prevalence of lead poisoning is high. Of the 112 children examined during the course of the study, over 70 show at least some signs and symptoms.

Incidence: I think that yes it’s an incidence, in this case the physician noticed an unusually large number of children brought to the clinic experiencing the same symptoms over a period of time, and until the environmental protection agency demolishes the old factory and decontaminates the soil it is likely that more children will still be contracting lead poisoning.

8) Yes it is an epidemic there is a higher than normal incidence of lead poisoning in this area and around the same time. This is not an infectious disease because it cannot be transmitted from one person to another.

9) Sign: Symptom:

Salivation, Joint Pain, Personality Change, difficulty walking, Red blood cell count and...