Essays on Regurgitation

MT is 14 year old with chest pain and dry cough as chief complaints. According to MT, she also experiences, regular heartburns, sore-throat and regurgitation of food. According to MT’s mother, she has a strong liking for coffee and tea and often prefers taking coffee or tea with a snack for dinner. Guided by the findings of the subjective assessment, gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) and gastritis, featured as the most probable conditions leading to these symptoms. However the laboratory and test findings revealed negative for H. pylori, hence excluding the possibility of gastritis. An ambulatory acid probe test ...

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is a sudden death of apparently healthy child aged up to 1 year as a result of cessation of breathing and heart failure, the cause of which cannot be established at the mortem expertise. Sometimes the syndrome is called as “death at the crib” or death for no reason. However, there are causes or risk factors for the development of this poorly studied phenomenon, and the parents, eliminating them from their life, can save the life and health of the child. SIDS is not a disease; it is a posthumous diagnosis that is exhibited ...

Lauren (2011) in “Pediatric Heart Murmurs: Evaluation and management in primary care,” gave an overview of the cardiac assessment, diagnosis of heart murmurs, and referral recommendations among children. Lauren noted that most of the heart murmurs were innocent resulting from a turbulent flow of blood in the pulmonary arteries or due to delayed cardiac development that leads to slight ductus arteriosus in neonates. Pathological heart murmurs result from ventricular septal defect, severe cases of patent ductus arteriosus or congenital heart diseases. The prevalence rate of heart murmurs among newborns is between 0.6% and 4.2%. About 90% of infants and ...