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- warm, tender, erythematous, skin taut, inflammation
- keflex |
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- cats and humans
- augmentin or cipro |
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Oral ulcerated lesion w/ indurated margins
- nontender immobile submandibular lymph nodes
- a sore in the mouth that won't heal
- persistant pain
- URI that won't go away
- blood in sputum
- numb tongue |
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| Criteria for bacterial pharyngitis |
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**3 or 4 positive!!!
1. Fever over 100.4
2. Lack of cough
3. Pharyngotonsillar Exudate
4. Anterior Cervical adenopathy |
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Penicillin V
OR
Erythromycin (pen allergy), azithromycin |
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| exudative pharyngitis main causitive agent |
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S. pyogenes - school children
m. pneumonia - adults |
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o s/s: Clear discharge, postnasal drip, nasal itch, sneezing, coughing, boggy turbinates
o Tx: Nasal sprays- Flonase, Decongestants, Zyrtec |
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- Stye - tender mass on eyelid
- hurts
- warm compress, topical bacitracin or erythromycin oph.
- IF NOT RESOLVED IN 2 DAYS, REFER TO OPTHAL. |
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- bacterial, gonococcal/chlamydial, allergic, viral
- can give cipro/oflox drops
- NO PAIN |
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- cleansing and debridement of ear
- topical otic drops: cortisporin otic
- pain control: NSAIDs, topical corticosteroids
- neomycin, bacitracin, polymixin B, hydrocortisone |
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s/s: red nasal mucosa, foul-smelling or post-nasal drainage (purulent in bacterial), fever, tenderness over sinuses, pain/pressure over face, nose, cheeks, teeth
DECREASED TRANSILLUMINATION
tx: augmentin, clarithromycin (biaxin)
analgesics, oral antihistamines |
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- usually unilateral
IF EXCESSIVE: dizziness, weakness, confusion, fainting
- sit upright, apply ice and constant pressure on nose, if doesn't stop in 30 min. REFER |
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| Benign positional vertigo |
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- Diagnosis based on characteristic history and positive Dix-Hallpike (Nylen-Barany) test.
- Last for seconds at a time and occur only after movement
- Vestibular neuritis and labyrinthitis have continuous often for hours to days
- Treatment: Epley maneuver to move otoliths out of posterior semicircular canal and back into the utricle
- Medications: Meclizine, Scopolamine, Dimenhydrinate, Promethazine, Diazepam |
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