The document discusses several personal health issues and concerns, including:
- Stunted growth and being underweight which can be caused by malnutrition.
- Overweight and obesity which is defined as excessive fat accumulation that risks health.
- Ear conditions like impacted earwax, swimmer's ear, acute otitis media, and otitis media with effusion which can cause ear pain and hearing issues.
- Eye conditions like blurred vision, astigmatism, myopia, hyperopia, xerophthalmia, and strabismus which can cause vision distortions or problems seeing close or distant objects clearly.
- Skin conditions like sunburn, corns, and blisters caused by
The document discusses several personal health issues and concerns, including:
- Stunted growth and being underweight which can be caused by malnutrition.
- Overweight and obesity which is defined as excessive fat accumulation that risks health.
- Ear conditions like impacted earwax, swimmer's ear, acute otitis media, and otitis media with effusion which can cause ear pain and hearing issues.
- Eye conditions like blurred vision, astigmatism, myopia, hyperopia, xerophthalmia, and strabismus which can cause vision distortions or problems seeing close or distant objects clearly.
- Skin conditions like sunburn, corns, and blisters caused by
The document discusses several personal health issues and concerns, including:
- Stunted growth and being underweight which can be caused by malnutrition.
- Overweight and obesity which is defined as excessive fat accumulation that risks health.
- Ear conditions like impacted earwax, swimmer's ear, acute otitis media, and otitis media with effusion which can cause ear pain and hearing issues.
- Eye conditions like blurred vision, astigmatism, myopia, hyperopia, xerophthalmia, and strabismus which can cause vision distortions or problems seeing close or distant objects clearly.
- Skin conditions like sunburn, corns, and blisters caused by
The document discusses several personal health issues and concerns, including:
- Stunted growth and being underweight which can be caused by malnutrition.
- Overweight and obesity which is defined as excessive fat accumulation that risks health.
- Ear conditions like impacted earwax, swimmer's ear, acute otitis media, and otitis media with effusion which can cause ear pain and hearing issues.
- Eye conditions like blurred vision, astigmatism, myopia, hyperopia, xerophthalmia, and strabismus which can cause vision distortions or problems seeing close or distant objects clearly.
- Skin conditions like sunburn, corns, and blisters caused by
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PERSONAL HEALTH ISSUES AND CONCERNS
ROSE F. DE GUZMAN STUNTED GROWTH – is a reduced growth rate in human development. It is a primary manifestation of malnutrition (or more precisely under nutrition) and recurrent infections, such as diarrhea and helminthiasis, in early childhood and even before birth, due to malnutrition during fetal development brought on by a malnourished mother UNDERWEIGHT- is a term describing a person whose body weight is considered too low to be healthy. OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY- are defined as ''abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health'' Impacted cerumen - is when earwax (cerumen) builds up in the ear and blocks the ear canal; it can cause temporary hearing loss and ear pain. SWIMMER’S EAR- Otitis externa, also known as swimmer's ear, is an inflammation of the ear canal. It often presents with ear pain, swelling of the ear canal, and occasionally decreased hearing. Typically there is pain with movement of the outer ear. A high fever is typically not present except in severe cases. two main types are acute otitis media (AOM) and otitis media with effusion (OME). AOM is an infection of abrupt onset that usually presents with ear pain. In young children this may result in pulling at the ear, increased crying, and poor sleep. Decreased eating and a fever may also be present. OME is typically not associated with symptoms. Occasionally a feeling of fullness is described. It is defined as the presence of non- infectious fluid in the middle ear for more than three months. BLURRED VISION- refers to eye movement control and eye coordination. Something that is hazy and indistinct to the sight ASTIGMATISM- is a type of refractive error in which the eye does not focus light evenly on the retina. This results in distorted or blurred vision at all distances. MYOPIA - Near-sightedness, also known as short-sightedness and myopia, is a condition of the eye where light focuses in front of, instead of on, the retina. [1] This causes distant objects to be blurry while close objects appear normal.
HYPEROPIA- Far-sightedness, also known
as long-sightedness and hyperopia, is a condition of the eye in which light is focused behind, instead of on, the retina. [2] This causes close objects to be blurry, while far objects may appear normal. XEROPHTHALMIA- is a medical condition in which the eye fails to produce tears. It may be caused by vitamin A deficiency, which is sometimes used to describe that condition, although there may be other causes. STRABISMUS- also called crossed eyes is a condition in which the eyes do not properly align with each other when looking at an object. tissue, such as skin, that results from an overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation, commonly from the sun. CORNS- an in growing callus often on the foot BLISTERS- is a small pocket of body fluid (lymph, serum, plasma, blood, or pus) within the upper layers of the skin, typically caused by forceful rubbing (friction), burning, freezing, chemical exposure or infection SCOLIOSIS - is a medical condition in which a person's spine has a sideways curve. LORDOSIS- refers to the normal inward lordotic curvature of the lumbar and cervical regions of the human spine KYPHOSIS- is an abnormally excessive convex kyphotic curvature of the spine as it occurs in the cervical, thoracic and sacral regions. CAVITIES- are damage to the structure of a tooth. GINGIVITIS- "inflammation of the gum tissue") is a non- destructive disease that occurs around the teeth PERIODONTITIS- also known as gum disease and pyorrhea, is a set of inflammatory diseases affecting the tissues surrounding the teeth. MALOCCLUSION-is a misalignment or incorrect relation between the teeth of the two dental arches when they approach each other as the jaws close. HALITOSIS- also known as bad breath is a symptom in which a noticeably unpleasant odor is present on the breath.
