Hypoxia and Medicine

Can a child experience chronic hypoxia due to alcohol consumption by the mom during her pregnancy? or can it be due to the umbilical cord being wrapped around the newborn's neck at the time of birth?

what can chronic hypoxia do to you if you do not stop smoking? My mom smokes . She smokes at least 2 carton of cigarettes of L and M 's the menthol and she had told me that she will not quite she said something is going to kill her one day . she had COPD and emphazima I haven't known my parents that long I haven known them for three years and they have just gon down hill and fast . My mom is also a type 2 diabetic and she has high blood pressure and cholestorol problems . How can the Chronic Hypoxia afftect her body and with all of ther other health issues . Also she does not wear her oxygen like she is suppose to during the night she will take it off and will take up not breathing . I am just wondering what can happen to her . Her birthday is coming up and she is turning 53 and that is not very old at all .

What are the effects of hypoxia at birth? Lets say a baby is born with the umbilical cord wrapped around it's neck and not breathing. If that baby is revitalized, has it suffered from hypoxia? If it has, what are the long term effects the child could have? I know of a child who was born like this, he is a-sexual, anti-social and has very strange behaviour plus he's extremely apathetic and has no "close" relationships, but this person is very intelligent, with no signs of brain issues other than ADD, Chronic insomnia, poor immune system and occasional light headedness. I'm just wondering if this is all caused from his birth experience. This is more for curiosity than anything else. Oh and the mother smoked while pregnant and who knows what else she did.

Can someone explain this statement? 'In chronic obstructive lung disease where you have an increase in CO2 and H+, the oxygen molecule can disassociate from the haemoglobin in the RBC, leading to tissue hypoxia' But wouldn't the dissociated oxygen diffuse into the tissues? Can someone please clarify??

Dementia drugs for COPD-related cognitive decline? My dad is 83 with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). He uses supplemental oxygen most of the time. Last year, a neurologist diagnosed him with “mild cognitive impairment.” The Dr. feels it could be connected to COPD, since my dad’s bloodstream has less-than-ideal levels of oxygen, hence, his braincells are not getting as much oxy as they need. I think this is called hypoxemia (vs. hypoxia, which is total lack of oxy). I’ve researched a bit on COPD-related mental decline, and it’s definitely real. My question is: how well do dementia drugs (i.e. for Alzheimer’s) work in a case like this? The doctor prescribed Aricept (classic Alzheimer’s drug). He didn’t promise anything, but said it’s worth a try. I’m not sure if it’s helping. I know there are stronger Alzheimer’s drugs, one being Namenda. If anyone's familiar with COPD/hypoxemic cognitive decline, I’d love to know more. My dad seems worse recently. I wonder if he has an age-related dementia on top of the COPD?

Respiratory diseases homework questions? Match the numbered column of diseases or disorders with their characteristics in the alphabetized column. 1. Atelectasis 2. COPD ( 3. Cysitic Fibrosis 4. Emphysema 5. Asthma A. Pulmonary and alveolar edema, dsypnea, and hypoxia. B. Congenital, incomplete, expansion of a lung or portion of a lung. C. Can result from many disorders such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema, chronic asthma D. Paroxysmal cough, ending in a whooping inspiration E. Paroxysmal dyspnea accompanied by wheezing F. Chronic respiratory infection and disorders of the pancreas and sweat glands G. Destruction of the alveolar walls that leads to hindered gas exchange between the alveoli and the blood.

PLEASE HELP!!! about delirium, psychological disorders, etc? Last week i experienced mild weird dream(hard to explain - like dreams you experience when you are in delirium – scary confusing dream) during half-sleep, usually i dream about that kind of dream when i experience delirium and when i have high fever, but that day i was healthy, “it’s just i thought about that weird dream”, i sleep atleast 8 hours a day, i eat well, i was not stressed or depressed, the night before that day i took “depakote(5 dosages)”. Ealier i slept around 1:am – of course i took “depakote(5 dosages)” 3 hours before sleep, then around 2:am i woke up having “delirium”, i slept in 2nd floor then i found myself in 1st floor – i didnt remember how i got in 1st floor – i was really almost unconcious then i experienced weird dream(delirium – i was really confused scared that time), my parents comforted me and after few seconds they gave me “¼ of rivotril” and right after i took “¼ of rivotril” i was instantly back to normal(fully awake and in a normal thinking). I want you people to “help me to know the “cause” of them”. Before i sleep i ate few lasagna(pasta), honey banana cereal, tuna sandwich, my stomach was almost full, was it because “my stomach was almost full when i went to sleep”? Was it psychological like what happened last week – but much worse? Was it because of “lack of water”? see the possible cause of delirium below – it says that “lack of water” is one of the possible causes, i said maybe “lack of water” because i think the “pasta” “absorbed” the water too much from my body and i think i was dehydrated, what do you think? Was it because of depakote? Few hours before sleep i recorded a television show using my camera – i was very near to my television(with high radiation) for more or less 40 minutes – i was having mild headache because of that – my eyes hurt a little too – was it because of that headache(felt my eyes were tired, had mild headache - too much light and radiation? Causes Delirium is a very general and nonspecific symptom of organ dysfunction, where the organ in question is the brain. Delirium may be caused by physical illness, which can be mild, or any process which interferes with the normal metabolism or function of the brain. For example, electric shock, fever, pain, poisons (including toxic drug reactions), brain injury, hypoxia, anoxia, surgery, traumatic shock, lack of food or water or sleep, and even withdrawal symptoms of certain drug and alcohol dependent states, are all known to cause delirium. In addition, there is an interaction between acute and chronic symptoms of brain dysfunction; delirious states are more easily produced in people already suffering with underlying chronic brain dysfunction.[6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium I have a little sleeping problems and i think i have ADHD(my psychiatrist told me that im hyper – i think a lot), my psychiatrist told me to take “depakote” 3 hours before sleep and sometimes “¼ rivotril”. From august 7-september 6 i took “depakote(5 dosages) and sometimes “¼ of rivotril”(very rare – sometimes once(¼) a week), from september 6 until now i take “depakote(only ‘2’ dosages)” because she said so and sometimes “¼ of rivotril”. By the way i have derealization/depersonalisation, again im not stressed/depressed THANKS IN ADVANCE! God bless you all

is acquired brain injury and traumatic brain injury the same thing? i am doing a project on acquired brain injury, but whenever i google it i get results to traumatic brain injury... i was wondering if tbi is a type of abi. i understand that tbi is from an external force, like bumping your head. i also understand that abi is caused by things like hypoxia, strokes and ischemia. but when i look on wikipedia tbi is mentioned in the abi category. i cannot make a mistake on this or i lose huge marks in my class. 20% of my final mark in chronic health care is on this one project!

differential diagnosis on hemoptysis? patient presents with acute onset hemoptysis. chronic cough of 4 months, sporadic and intermittently. chest x-ray shows 2 focuses on the lower lobes of each lung. left rib is abnormal. chest examination shows no signs of breathlessness or hypoxia, no abnormal breath sounds. percussion is normal. superficial palpation of the abdomen for distension, hepatosplenomegaly is normal. no family history of blood diseases, cancer, autoimmune disease. no long term medication or past clinical history. my differential is tuberculosis or pneumonia. anything else that i cannot rule out based on this? blood results are not out yet.

Medical Terminology check! Medical help.? I need to see if these are the write answers, and I need help on a few! 1.Cluster of boils- Carbuncle 2.Blue Bloaster- chronic bronchitis 3.pink puffer- emphysema 4.sudden attack-? 5.dead tissue-? 6.movement-? 7.Soft bone-osteomalacia 8.Painful bruise-? 9.joint pain- arthalgia 10.slow breathing-bradypnea 11.Fast breathing-tachypnea 12.lack of oxygen-hypoxia 13.ringworm- tinea 14. dandruff- pityriasis capitis I was given the general word and had to find the medical word. I couldnt find a few in my notes and want to double check the ones I did find!

PLEASE HELP!!! about delirium, psychological disorders, etc? Last week i experienced mild weird dream(hard to explain - like dreams you experience when you are in delirium – scary confusing dream) during half-sleep, usually i dream about that kind of dream when i experience delirium and when i have high fever, but that day i was healthy, “it’s just i thought about that weird dream”, i sleep atleast 8 hours a day, i eat well, i was not stressed or depressed, the night before that day i took “depakote(5 dosages)”. Ealier i slept around 1:am – of course i took “depakote(5 dosages)” 3 hours before sleep, then around 2:am i woke up having “delirium”, i slept in 2nd floor then i found myself in 1st floor – i didnt remember how i got in 1st floor – i was really almost unconcious then i experienced weird dream(delirium – i was really confused scared that time), my parents comforted me and after few seconds they gave me “¼ of rivotril” and right after i took “¼ of rivotril” i was instantly back to normal(fully awake and in a normal thinking). I want you people to “help me to know the “cause” of them”. Before i sleep i ate few lasagna(pasta), honey banana cereal, tuna sandwich, my stomach was almost full, was it because “my stomach was almost full when i went to sleep”? Was it psychological like what happened last week – but much worse? Was it because of “lack of water”? see the possible cause of delirium below – it says that “lack of water” is one of the possible causes, i said maybe “lack of water” because i think the “pasta” “absorbed” the water too much from my body and i think i was dehydrated, what do you think? Was it because of depakote? Few hours before sleep i recorded a television show using my camera – i was very near to my television(with high radiation) for more or less 40 minutes – i was having mild headache because of that – my eyes hurt a little too – was it because of that headache(felt my eyes were tired, had mild headache - too much light and radiation? Causes Delirium is a very general and nonspecific symptom of organ dysfunction, where the organ in question is the brain. Delirium may be caused by physical illness, which can be mild, or any process which interferes with the normal metabolism or function of the brain. For example, electric shock, fever, pain, poisons (including toxic drug reactions), brain injury, hypoxia, anoxia, surgery, traumatic shock, lack of food or water or sleep, and even withdrawal symptoms of certain drug and alcohol dependent states, are all known to cause delirium. In addition, there is an interaction between acute and chronic symptoms of brain dysfunction; delirious states are more easily produced in people already suffering with underlying chronic brain dysfunction.[6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium I have a little sleeping problems and i think i have ADHD(my psychiatrist told me that im hyper – i think a lot), my psychiatrist told me to take “depakote” 3 hours before sleep and sometimes “¼ rivotril”. From august 7-september 6 i took “depakote(5 dosages) and sometimes “¼ of rivotril”(very rare – sometimes once(¼) a week), from september 6 until now i take “depakote(only ‘2’ dosages)” because she said so and sometimes “¼ of rivotril”. By the way i have derealization/depersonalisation, again im not stressed/depressed THANKS IN ADVANCE! God bless you all