| A | B |
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| Communicable disease | illness that can be passed on to other people |
| Incubation stage | child has been exposed and illness is dormant |
| Prodromal stage | child may be sluggish, fatigued but no real symptoms like fever, cough, lesions, etc |
| Food borne illness | an illness caused by eating food that contains harmful bacteria, toxins, parasites, or viruses |
| Vaccination | a small amount of a dead or weakened disease-carrying germ that is injected so that the body can build resistance to the disease |
| Acute Stage | fever, cough, lesions or other symptoms of the disease appear |
| Microbe | A microorganism, especially a bacterium that causes disease |
| Convalescent stage | symptoms begin to lesson or disappear; however the child still does not feel 100% well |
| Pathogens | any disease-producing agent, such as a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism |
| Organisms | An individual form of life, such as a plant, an animal, a bacterium, a protist, or a fungus |
| lymph glands/nodes | is a small bean-shaped organ of the immune system, distributed widely throughout the body and filters foreign particles |
| Immunization | The process of inducing immunity to an infectious organism or agent in an individual or animal through vaccination |
| Air borne illness | Illness is caused when the microbe is inhaled or contacts mucus membranes or when secretions remaining on a surface are touched |
| Fecal-oral transmission | when bacteria or viruses found in the stool of one child or animal are swallowed by another child |
| Blood borne illness | illness spread by contamination of blood |
| Respiratory tract | a very common site for infections |
| Antibodies | Proteins in the blood that are produced by the body in response to pathogens |
| Universal infection control precautions | Children's health is promoted by limiting the potential spread of infection among children and staff |
| Direct transmission | characterized by transmitting illness through contact of body fluids through touching, biting, kissing, sexual contact, or droplets from eyes, nose and/or mouth |
| Indirect transmission | characterized by transmitting illness through an insect or inanimate object |
| Impetigo | bacterial skin infection causes superficial sores that can be spread through direct transmission |
| Scabies | skin infection caused from mites that burrow into the skin causing itching |
| Measles | a respiratory illness caused by a virus. Symptoms include fever, cough, red eyes, and a skin rash |
| Mumps | viral disease causing painful swelling of the salivary glands |
| Ringworm | skin scab disease caused by a fungi infection |
| Chicken Pox | Symptoms include mild fever, headache, and sore throat. During the acute stage, an itchy rash forms. |
| Lice | In the prodromal stage, this insect lays eggs in the scalp. |
| Mononucleosis | Symptoms include body aches, fatigue, loss of appetite, fever, sore throat, swollen lymph nodes, and enlarged liver or speen. |
| Fifth Disease | A viral disease that is described as a distinctive red rash on the face that makes the child appear to have a "slapped cheek." |
| Hand/Foot/Mouth Disease | This disease causes fever, blister-like eruptions in the mouth, and a skin rash. |
| Tetanus | Another name for lockjaw, is a condition that affects the nervous system and causes painful, uncontrolled muscle spasms. |
| Roseola Infantum | Also known as Sixth Disease, causes high fever and non-itchy, painless spots that no do blister. |
| AIDS | Caused by the Human Immundeficiency Virus, it lowers a person's ability to fight infection. Symptoms are similar to mononucleosis. |
| Influenza | An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs. Symptoms include high fever, headaches, tiredness, cough, sore throat, runny nose, and body aches. |
| Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever | A bacteria infection passed onto humans via tick bite. |
| Tuberculosis | Symptoms include coughing up blood, excessive sweating, fever, unconditional weight loss, and chest pain. |
| Streptococcal Infection | Bacterial Infection causing a red, painful throat, white/yellow patches on tonsils, swollen lymoth nodes in neck, fever, headache, nausea, chills, tiredness, and bad breath |
| Rubella | Also known as the German Measles, is a viral disease that causes fever and rash. |
| Hepatitus B | Disease caused by a virus that attacks the liver. Symptoms include loss of appetite, fatigue, vomiting, right abdomenal pain, jaundice, dark urine, and pale-colored stool. |
| Herpes Simplex | Symptoms include blisters and ulcers found in the mouth, gums, or lips; fevers during the first out break, and enlarged lymph nodes in neck. |
