DCF HEALTH, SAFETY, AND NUTRITION
EXAM REPORTED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Rubeola Measles - Fever tiredness, cough, runny nose and inflamed eyes. These
symptoms worsen over 3 days Blotchy rash apears on fourth day. The cough tends to
be worse at night. Transmitted by direct contact with nasal or throat secretions. 7 to 18
days. Cannot attend school until after teh 4 day rash appears. Vaccines available.
Scabies - Severe itching, small raised reddened areas or blisters with connectiong
grayish-white lines Most commonly found in folds of skin. Transmitted by touch from
another body containing parasites. Exclude until no more open lesions can be
observed. Applying mite killing lotions and washing them off.
Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning - Nausea, light headedness, vomiting and tingling or
numbness around mouth, followed by the paralysis of the extremities and possibly
respiratory paralysis. Transmitted by easting clams, oysters or mussel that ingested
poisonous protozoa "red tide". Within a few minutes of ingestion. Reportable disease.
Treatment intravenous injection of weak solution of prostigmin methylsulfate and
oxygen and artificial respiration.
Strep Infections - Steptoccocci of several strains cause scarlet fever and strep/sore
throat. Secretions from mouth, nose and ears. Transmitted by infeced people. 1 to 3
days Isolation for 1 day after treatment of antibiotics.
Tetanus - Tetanus bacillus present in wound through soil contact with horses, street
dust, farms. 4 to 3 weeks Immunization
Tuberculosis - Consist of listlessness, loss of apetite, weight loss and low grade fever.
Transmitted by ingestion of infected droplets. 4 to 6 weeks Vaccination.
Typhus - Headaches, chills, fever, malaise and maculopapular rash. Transmitted from
rodents to humans by bites of lice, fleas, ticks or mites. Typhus vaccine.
Vibrio Cholera - Severe diarrhea and vomitting, muscular cramps, dehydration and
depletion of electrolytes. Transmitted by spead by water and food that have been
contaminated by feces of persons infected. Reportabel disease to CDC. Vaccination
and boiling drinking water and eating only cooked foods. Treatment of antibiotics and
drinking more water and electrolytes drinks.
Recovery Position of Heat Stroke - requires the person to be on back, stablized and
airways open to prevent choking. www.redcross.org
, Steps to recover from dehydration - Give plenty of water every 30 o 60 minutes, do not
give milk, do not give sports drink, monitor food and drink intake, record temperature
and communicate with parents.
Call the parents, and if necessary suggest to the parents that the child needs
____________ attention. - medical
Fungi - Grow best in warm, moist places. Can cause athlete's fod and ringworm.
EFfective medication available. Medications work best when conditions favorable to
fungal growth are removed.
Virus - Smaller than bacteria. Grow only in living cells. Can cause colds, chicken pox,
measles, German Measles, mumps. Antibiotics have no effect. REst is the best action;
body fights better when rested. Vaccines against common ones are available.
Bacteria - Small organisims seen with an ordinary microscope. CAn cause strep throat,
impetigo, pink eye and som pneumonia. Antiboiotics help stop growth.
Parasites - Organisms that live on or in animals and people. Common examples include
pinwoms, roundworms, head lice. Effective medications are available for most.
List 4 ways diseases are transmitted. - Respiratory - nose and throat discharges like
colds, flu
Fecal/Oral - bowel movements by soiled hands or objects to mouth like salmonella,
Hepatitis A
Direct contact - infected area or infested body area like impetigo, ringworm, lice,
scabies.
Blood borne - through blood contac (HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B and C.
4 serious communicabl diseases - Hib - meningtis, Pnenumonia
Hepatitis B-infection of liver, fatigue, dark urine transmitted by blood.
Hepatitis C-disease of liver no vaccines, spread from mother to child, transmitted by
blood, symptoms fatigue, jaundice
HIV - Virus transmitted by blood exposure or breast milk or stuck by needle, weaken
immune system.
Most common childhood illnesses are? - Chicken pox, common cold, flu, diarrhea,
conjunctivities, giardiasis, allergic reations, RSV - wheezing and cough, lice
Preventing commuicable diseases - Isolation, Immunization, Written Policies (wash
hands, clean tables), Universal precautions
Isolation still requires _________ ____________. - direct supervision
