Essays on Pyrexia

Effect heat has on nociceptors

Nociceptors are pain receptors activated by neuropathic or nociceptive stimuli released during pain towards impending or actual tissue injury (Dubin, 2010). Nociceptors frequently are related to the perception of pain are evoked when the pressure and temperature are at a level considered extreme that can cause injuries to tissues and secondly by toxic molecule and inflammatory mediators. In most instances, these injuries concentrate on one section of the skin, blocking the flow of blood. Heat or cold assists in subsecond somatopic withdrawal response the two act as stimuli to depolarize outer terminals resulting in the production of the receptor ...

Since time immemorial, wounds and infections have been known to occur in pregnant women after parturition. Wound infection can result in increased discomfort and maternal morbidity in recently delivered mothers (2007, Fox). Wounds could result from tears in the perineum during parturition, instrumental deliveries, episiotomy site and surgical wounds after a caesarean section to deliver the foetus. Oftentimes, these wounds may become infected, causing puerperal pyrexia in the patients. Other forms of infections include; Genital tract infection, Urinary tract infection, upper respiratory tract infection and mastitis. Group A beta-haemolytic streptococci, Escherichia coli, Proteus spp, Staphylococcus aureus, klebsiella spp, Clostridium welchii ...