American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the SickAmerican National Red Cross
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American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick
American National Red Cross
Home nursing; Hygiene; Nurses; Nursing
| patient and particles |
| About third day upon | of skin or scabs. |
| subsidence of constitutional | |
| symptoms red shot-like | |
| pimples, felt below the | |
| skin, and seen first about | |
| the face and wrists most on | |
| exposed surfaces, develop. | |
| They form little blisters | |
| and after two days more | |
| become filled with yellowish | |
| matter. Scabs form which | |
| begin to fall off about the | |
| fourteenth day. | |
-------------+------------------------------+-------------------------+
SORE THROAT, | Begins with sore throat and | Discharges from nose |
ACUTE, | weakness. Throat diffusely | and mouth of a |
SEPTIC | reddened and may show | patient. |
| patches like diphtheria. | |
-------------+------------------------------+-------------------------+
WHOOPING | Begins with cough which is | Discharges from nose |
COUGH | worse at night. Symptoms may | and mouth of a |
| at first be very mild. | patient. |
| Characteristic "whooping" | |
| cough develops in about 2 | |
| weeks, and the spasm of | |
| coughing sometimes ends with | |
| vomiting. | |
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| EXCLUSION FROM SCHOOL |
|-------+-------------------+--------------------+
| | OTHER CHILDREN | OTHER SCHOOL |
| | OF SAME | CHILDREN |
DISEASE | | HOUSEHOLD | ESPECIALLY EXPOSED |
| +--------+----------+--------+-----------+
|Patient| | | | |
| | Non- | | Non- | |
| | immunes|Immunes[3]| immunes| Immunes[3]|
| | | | | |
-------------+-------+--------+----------+--------+-----------+
CHICKENPOX | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
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