A Simple Guide to Insect-Borne Diseases, Diagnosis, Treatment and Related Conditions
A Simple Guide to Insect-Borne Diseases, Diagnosis, Treatment and Related Conditions
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Overview
Different insects can produce severe diseases that can cause death such as dengue hemorrhagic fever, malaria especially in children, fetal deaths in zika infected pregnant women, and the Black Death (plague) in the middle ages.
Insect-borne diseases are viral and bacterial diseases from insect bites.
The most frequent insects that transmit disease are mosquitoes, sand flies, ticks, and fleas.
Mosquitoes are famous for spreading the Dengue virus, Zika virus, Chikungunya virus, Yellow Fever, and Malaria.
Aedes
1. Chikungunya
2. Dengue
3. Lymphatic filariasis
4. Rift Valley fever
5. Yellow Fever
6. Zika
Anopheles
1. Lymphatic filariasis
2. Malaria
Culex
1. Japanese encephalitis
2. Lymphatic filariasis
3. West Nile fever
Ticks are famous for spreading Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
1. Lyme disease
2. Rocky Mountain spotted fever
3. Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
4. Relapsing fever (borreliosis)
Fleas are famous for spreading the Bubonic Plaque (Black Death) to humans in the middle ages
1. Plague (transmitted from rats to humans)
Lice are common in unhygienic people who do not shower and wear dirty unhealthy clothing.
1. Typhus
Sandflies tend to bite people at beaches.
1. Leishmaniasis
Tsetse fly can transmit trypanosomes to humans through its bite causing Sleeping Sickness
1. Sleeping sickness
Chagas disease, a leading cause of cardiomyopathy in the world is spread by kissing bugs.
1. Chagas disease
The diseases are produced by blood-sucking insects that infect humans when they bite the person.
The patient increases the danger of being infected by an insect when the patient is in areas where they gather.
This environment would involve tall grass, bushes, spots near still water (ponds), beaches and places around the globe with heavy outbreaks.
Symptoms will differ depending upon the type of insect that bit the person:
1. Fever
2. Chills
3. Headache
5. Sore muscles
6. Skin rash
7. Nausea
8. Abdominal pain
More serious symptoms can be:
1. Difficulty breathing
2. The feeling that the throat is closing
3. Swelling of the lips, tongue or the face
4. Chest pain
5. A racing heartbeat that lasts more than a few minutes
6. Dizziness
7. Vomiting
The doctor can normally diagnose an insect-borne disease with a physical examination, a review of the symptoms, and the history of the recent travel.
Laboratory tests (blood and urine) can assist in diagnosing certain insect-borne diseases.
As soon as the patient recognizes a bite, he or she should clean it with soap and water.
The patient should pat it dry and apply rubbing alcohol.
If the patient was bitten by a tick, he or she should remove the tick away before cleaning the area.
The patient should use tweezers to slowly pull it off the skin.
The patient should be careful not to leave any part of the tick on the skin.
The patient should wash the hands and the bite area with soap and water and wipe with alcohol.
The patient should apply an over-the-counter antibiotic cream to the bite area.
If the patient has any of the symptoms above, he or she should see the doctor.
The doctor may give the patient a prescription for antibiotic medicine.
The over-the-counter pain medicine can alleviate sore muscles and a fever.
Death in insect-borne diseases happens in dengue fever, malaria, zika (fetus) and plague.
TABLE OF CONTENT
Introduction
Chapter 1 Insect-borne Diseases
Chapter 2 Malaria (Updated)
Chapter 3 Dengue Fever (Updated)
Chapter 4 Yellow Fever (Updated)
Chapter 5 Lyme Disease (Updated)
Chapter 6 Sleeping Sickness (Updated)
Chapter 7 Filiarisis (Updated)
Chapter 8 Zika (Updated)
Chapter 9 Chikungunya (Updated)
Chapter 10 Plague (Updated)
Epilogue
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940165862571 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Kenneth Kee |
| Publication date: | 05/24/2022 |
| Sold by: | Smashwords |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 274 KB |
About the Author
Medical doctor since 1972.
Started Kee Clinic in 1974 at 15 Holland Dr #03-102, relocated to 36 Holland Dr #01-10 in 2009.
Did my M.Sc (Health Management ) in 1991 and Ph.D (Healthcare Administration) in 1993.
Dr Kenneth Kee is still working as a family doctor at the age of 74
However he has reduced his consultation hours to 3 hours in the morning and 2 hours in
the afternoon.
He first started writing free blogs on medical disorders seen in the clinic in 2007 on http://kennethkee.blogspot.com.
His purpose in writing these simple guides was for the health education of his patients which is also his dissertation for his Ph.D (Healthcare Administration). He then wrote an autobiography account of his journey as a medical student to family doctor on his other blog http://afamilydoctorstale.blogspot.com
This autobiography account “A Family Doctor’s Tale” was combined with his early “A Simple Guide to Medical Disorders” into a new Wordpress Blog “A Family Doctor’s Tale” on http://ken-med.com.
From which many free articles from the blog was taken and put together into 1000 eBooks.
He apologized for typos and spelling mistakes in his earlier books.
He will endeavor to improve the writing in futures.
Some people have complained that the simple guides are too simple.
For their information they are made simple in order to educate the patients.
The later books go into more details of medical disorders.
He has published 1000 eBooks on various subjects on health, 1 autobiography of his medical journey, another on the autobiography of a Cancer survivor, 2 children stories and one how to study for his nephew and grand-daughter.
The purpose of these simple guides is to educate patient on health disorders and not meant as textbooks.
He does not do any night duty since 2000 ever since Dr Tan had his second stroke.
His clinic is now relocated to the Buona Vista Community Centre.
The 2 units of his original clinic are being demolished to make way for a new Shopping Mall.
He is now doing some blogging and internet surfing (bulletin boards since the 1980's) starting
with the Apple computer and going to PC.
The entire PC is upgraded by himself from XT to the present Pentium duo core.
The present Intel i7 CPU is out of reach at the moment because the CPU is still expensive.
He is also into DIY changing his own toilet cistern and other electric appliance.
His hunger for knowledge has not abated and he is a lifelong learner.
The children have all grown up and there are 2 grandchildren who are even more technically advanced than the grandfather where mobile phones are concerned.
This book is taken from some of the many articles in his blog (now with 740 posts) A Family Doctor’s Tale.
Dr Kee is the author of:
"A Family Doctor's Tale"
"Life Lessons Learned From The Study And Practice Of Medicine"
"Case Notes From A Family Doctor"