disease and negative effects

shell shock ❖ Causes: ● Believed to be caused by a physical injury to the nerves ❖ Symptoms ● Unrelenting Anxiety ● Hysterical Tics of facial muscles ● Stomach Cramps ● Hallucinations and nightmares ❖ Mortality rate ● Indirectly related suicide percent- 40% ❖ Cure ● If it was believed to be a paralysis of the nerves they used massages, rest, dietary regimes and electric shock treatment. ● If it was believed to be a psychological source they used the “talking cure”, hypnosis and rest.

trench foot ❖ Causes: ● Unsanitary conditions in the trenches. ❖ Symptoms: ● Swelling ● Color change ● Tingling warmth ● Blisters

Typhus ❖ Causes ● Microscopic Bacterial life form ❖ Symptoms ● Headache ● Chills ● Fever ● General Pains ● Rash ● Toxemia (toxic substances in the blood) ● Delirium ● Death ❖ Mortality Rate ● 3 Million deaths % of infected ❖ Cure ● Antibiotics- Tetracycline and Chloramphenicol and Intravenous fluids were used to stabilize.

1st stage of typhoid ❖ c auses: ● Spread by ingestion of faecally contaminated food or water. ● Poor hygiene and sanitation in trenches ❖ Symptoms: ● Rising temperature ● Headache ● Cough ● Bloody nose ● Decrease in white blood cells ● Abdominal pain

2nd STage of Typhoid Too tired to move Fever Delirium Red spots of chest and abdomen Abdominal Pain Enlarged Spleen and Liver

3rd stage of typhoid ● intestinal perforation ● pneumonia and acute bronanits ● dehydration ● intestine hemorrhage ● rash ● dry cough ● abnormal sweating

4th Stage of Typhoid By the end of the third week, the fever starts subsiding and continues to do so throughout the fourth and final week Mortality Rate- 10 to 30% of infected people ● Cure:Hydrotherapy-reduces the fever

influenza outbreak ❖ causes: ● living in the brutal conditions of the trenches. ❖ Mortality Rate ● estimated americans died of influenza ● estimated servicemen mobilized for WW1 died of influenza ❖ in 1918 children would skip to the rhyme: ❖ I had a bird,its name was enza, i opened the window,and in-flew-enza

spanish flu ❖ Causes ● Caused by vaccinations ❖ Symptoms ● Fever ● Fatigue ● Muscle and Joint pain ● Headache ● Lack of appetite ❖ Mortality Rate ● the flu was mostly deadly for people ages 20 to 40. ● it infected 28% of all americans ● It spread along the path of human carriers,along trade routes and shipping routes.

malaria ❖ Causes: ● Mosquito borne disease caused by a parasite. ❖ Symptoms: ● Fever ● Chills ● Flu like illness ❖ Effects: ● In 2013 estimated 198 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide ● 500,000 people died,mostly children in the african region

dysentery ❖ Is inflammation of the intestine. ❖ Symptoms: ● Fever ● Abdominal pain ● Rectal tenesmus ● Causes infections such as bacteria, viruses, parasitic worms, and protozoa.

Negative Conditions ❖ Sleeping in unsanitary conditions (trenches) ❖ Damp conditions caused their wounds to become infected because they couldn’t heal properly. ❖ In the winter they suffered from frostbite because there was no way of heating the trenches ❖ Lice and body lice (cooties) ❖ Water was shipped in large containers and was sometimes contaminated with bug and bacteria ❖ Food was scarce; barely enough to keep them going

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