bacterial pneumonia

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- April 6, 2006 at 11:48 pm #4347
  bljenkins
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  Pleae help me to understand
  Harry is hospitalized with bacterial pneumonia. When you vist him, his teeth are chattering, his skin is cool and clammy to the touch, and he complains of feeling cold even though his room is quite warm. Explain his symptoms.
- April 7, 2006 at 2:43 am #45287
  canalon
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  Poor Harry. I guess he did spent too much time doing his homework in a cold and dark room, eating too little. When instead he could have spent a lot of time exercising outside and asking on the internet people to do his homework for him.
  He deserves nothing more for such stupidity.
- April 7, 2006 at 3:00 pm #45331
  beluga fiction
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  quote bljenkins:
  Pleae help me to understand
  hospitalized with bacterial pneumonia…his teeth are chattering, his skin is cool and clammy to the touch, and he complains of feeling cold even though his room is quite warm. Explain his symptoms.
  When bacteria spread into blood our body react to contract the muscle to produce fever. At some point fever help the metabolism to fight the infection, alert the immune sistem, … .
- April 9, 2006 at 1:14 pm #45495
  victor
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  fever is initiated by a molecule secreted by macrophage which named IL-1 (interleukin-1). It’s job is alerting hypothalamus’ thermostate to risen up body’s temperature in order to proliferate immune system units faster…
- April 11, 2006 at 2:23 pm #45676
  Jelanen
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  Hyperthermia, diaphoresis…knew those EMT classes would come in handy some day
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