Pathophysiology- Adaptive Response
The body has a natural adaptive response that allows it to cope with both internal and external environments. Adaptive responses in the medical and healthcare field are commonly referred to as signs and symptoms and they play a crucial role in that they help health practitioners to discern the underlying conditions, thus diagnose the disorder to be treated/managed (Huether, McCance & Parkinson, 2013). This paper is a discussion of pathophysiology based on three given case ill-health manifestations. The provided signs and symptoms will be used to determine the possible health disorder then discourse the pathogenesis in explaining the visible manifestations. The paper also presents a tonsillitis mind map that includes epidemiology, pathophysiology, associated risk factors, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and adaptive responses. It has been determined that the health condition for case one is tonsillitis, for case two it is contact dermatitis, and case three it is stress response.
Scenario 1: Tonsillitis
It is determined that Jennifer is suffering from Tonsillitis mainly because of the erythematous throat, the 4+ swollen tonsils and diffuse exudates, palpable and tender to touch anterior cervical nodes. Tonsillitis is when the pharyngeal tonsils swell and the swelling can extend to lingual and the adenoid tonsils. The disorder can be caused by either bacteria or virus infections and in conjunction with other immunologically related factors leads to the tonsillitis disorder (Ueno, Banchereau & Vinuesa, 2015). Viruses causing tonsillitis include Herpes simplex, Epstein-Barr virus, and Cytomegalovirus...
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