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Signs and Symptoms 7. Blood in the urine 8. A person suffering from severe chest pains with weakness in the arm 9. Great difficulty in breathing, does not improve with rest 10. A person who is so weak he faints when he stands up 11. A person cannot be wakened (coma) Blood flukes spread like this: Home Management of Minor Ailments Blood flukes spread like this: 1. Infected person 5. In this way, someone who urinates in 1. water. Infected person washes 5. In this or swims way, someone in water who where urinates in water. an infected washes or person swims in has water urinated, where also an becomes infected person infected. has urinated, also becomes infected. 2. Urine 2. has Urine worm has worm eggs in it. eggs in it. 3. Worm 3. eggs Worm eggs 4. Young 4. Young worms worms hatch and go leave snail and hatch and go leave snail and into snails. go into another into snails. go into person. another person. Anxiety and difficulty in breathing after exercise; Anxiety and asthma-like difficulty inattacks that get breathing after worse exercise; when the person lies down (cardiac asthma). asthma-like attacks that get worse when A the rapid, person weak, lies or irregular down (cardiac pulse asthma). A rapid, weak, Swelling or irregular of the feet-worse pulse in the afternoons. Swelling of the feet-worse in the afternoons. How to position an unconscious person: Signs: very pale skin: (shock, fainting, etc) Sometimes fever and chills or headache Sometimes pain in the side Painful urination and need to Sudden, painful attacks in the chest, left shoulder, or Sudden, arm that painful occur when attacks in the exercising chest, left and shoulder, go away after or resting for a few minutes arm that occur when (angina pectoris). exercising and go away after resting A sharp for pain a few like minutes a great (angina weight pectoris). crushing the chest: does not go away with rest A sharp (heart pain attack). like a great weight crushing the chest: does not go away with rest (heart attack). red or normal skin: (heat stroke, stroke, heart problems) Sometimes it feels – though the bladder does not empty completely. Sometimes there is pain in the lower back (kidneys) 221
Module 4 The work of <strong>Community</strong> <strong>Health</strong> Volunteers 222 Signs and Symptoms 12. A day or more without being able to urinate 13. A day or more without being able to drink any fluids 14. A person with a stiff neck with arched back, with or without a stiff jaw How to position very pale an unconscious skin: person: red or normal skin: (shock, fainting, etc) (heat stroke, stroke, heart problems) very pale skin: red or normal skin: (shock, fainting, How etc) to position an unconscious (heat person: stroke, stroke, heart problems) Signs: Signs: Sometimes fever and chills or headache Signs: Sometimes fever and chills Sometimes fever and chills Sometimes or headache pain or headache in the side Sometimes pain Sometimes pain in the side Painful in the urination side and need to Painful urination urinate Painful very urination and need to often and need to urinate very often urinate very Urine often may be cloudy Urine may be cloudy or reddish (bloody) or reddish (bloody) Urine may be cloudy Unable or reddish to hold (bloody) Unable to hold in urine in urine (especially true of children). (especially true of children). Unable to hold in urine (especially true of children). Signs: 15. A person who develops yellow eyes and skin colour Does not want to eat. Not all people with yellow Often goes eyes days have Yellow Fever. (jaundice), without eating anything Not all people with yellow eyes have Yellow Fever. 16. Black stools like tar, or vomit with blood Signs: Sometimes there is pain on Signs: Does not want to eat. Often goes days without Does not eating want anything to eat. Often goes days the right side near the liver or the lower ribs. without eating anything Sometimes there is pain on the right side near the liver or Sometimes the lower ribs. there is pain on the right side near the liver or the lower ribs. An ulcer very pale skin: (shock, fainting, etc) Not all people with yellow eyes have Yellow Fever. is an open sore in the stomach or gut. Tiny bumps or sores with much itching – first between fingers, on the wrists or waist. Pimples or sores with pus or inflamation often from scratching insect bites. May cause swollen lymph nodes. Irregular, spreading sores with shiny, yellow crusts. red or normal skin: (heat stroke, stroke, heart problems) Sometimes it feels – though the bladder does Sometimes not empty Sometimes it feels – it feels – completely. though the bladder though the bladder does not empty does not empty Sometimes completely. completely. there is pain in the lower Sometimes there is back Sometimes (kidneys) pain there in the is lower pain in the lower back (kidneys) Sometimes back (kidneys) the pain Sometimes the pain seems to go down seems to go down the Sometimes legs. the the legs. pain seems to go down In the serious legs. cases In serious cases (kidney disease) (kidney disease) the feet and face the In feet serious and cases face may swell. may (kidney swell. disease) the feet and face may swell. May have fever After a few days, the eyes turn yellow. Sight or small of food may May have fever course vomiting May have fever After a few days, The urine the eyes turns dark yellow and the stools become whitish turn yellow. After a few days, the eyes turn yellow. Sight or small of food may course vomiting Sight or small of food may course vomiting The urine turns dark yellow and the stools become whitish The urine turns dark yellow and the stools become whitish scabies infection from bacteria impetigo (bacterial infection
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USAID UNITED STATES AGENCY I N T E
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Preface iv The Community-based Heal
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Acknowledgements vi The Ministry of
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viii MDGs Millennium development go
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