ASSESS AND CLASSIFY THE SICK CHILD

Book Four   Lesson 1
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AGE 2 MONTHS UP TO 5 YEARS

            WHEN A MOTHER BRINGS HER SICK CHILD (age 2m- 5y) TO THE CLINIC:

 

GREET the mother appropriately and           Ask about her child.   LOOK to see if the child’s weight and           temperature have been recorded	Use Good Communication Skills:     -  Listen carefully to what the mother tells you -  Use words the mother understands     -  Give the mother time to answer the questions     -  Ask additional questions if the mother is not        sure about her answer Record Important Information
ASK the mother what the child’s  problems are
DETERMINE if this is an INITIAL visit or FOLLOW UP visit for this problem
IF this is an INITIAL VISIT for the problem	IF this is a FOLLOW-UP VISIT for the problem
CHEK for general DANGER SIGNS	GIVE FOLLOW –UP CARE (Discuss later )
ASK the mother about the 5 main symptoms           ·        Cough or difficult breathing           ·        Diarrhea           ·        Sore throat           ·        Ear problem           ·        Fever	When a symptom is present :           ·          Assess the child further for the signs related to the main symptom, and           ·          Classify the illness according to the signs which are present or absent
CHECK for signs of MALNUTRITION and ANEMIA  and CLASSIFY the child’s nutritional status
CHECK the child’s IMMUNIZATION and VITAMIN  A supplementation status and decide if the child needs any immunizations or vitamin A supplementation today
ASSESS any OTHER PROBLEMS
Then: Identify Treatment , Treat the Child and Counsel the Mother

                                                                                                                                                       of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write.
But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write.
The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas--legends handed down from one generation of story-tellers to another.
These legends are useful because they can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago, but none could write down what they did.
Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples now