CE220 Unit 6: The Healthy Child: Disease Prevention and Medication Regimen

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CE220 Unit 6 The Healthy Child Disease
Prevention and Medication Regimen

• Nancy Moretti

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Weekly Reminders

• Complete Readings
• Read Web Resources
• Complete the learning activities
• Discussion Board
• Post detailed responses to discussion question
  (100 words or more)
• Share detailed feedback with at least 2
  classmates
• Post response to Seminar Option 2 IF you do not
  attend seminar
• Complete Project

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Unit 6 Project

• 1) You are going to be create an advertisement
  using the flyer in Doc Sharing that makes a
  healthy snack look exciting.
• Please feel free to be as creative as possible,
  but make sure to cite your sources. If you use
  clip art, using the pictures from Microsoft Word
  is the best choice
• If you click on the circles on the top of the
  flyer, you can add clip art to make the flyer
  more attractive.

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Unit 6 Project cont.

• 2) You'll finish creating a 5-day menu for the
  age group of your choice. Your menu will include
  alternative choices for children with wheat and
  nut allergies and for vegetarian children. The
  menu you create will be based on the USDA Food
  Guide Pyramid for children. Your menu will be
  created by filling out the form provided and
  submitting the form by the end of Unit 6.
• Read Chapter 19 of your text, pp. 448-473, for
  information on creating your own original menu.
• You also may visit these sites for help
• USDA Resource List
• http//www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/resource_lists.shtml
  
• http//www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Resources/menu_magic.pd
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• Food allergies
• http//www.foodallergy.org
• Vegetarian/vegan diets
• http//www.mypyramid.gov/tips_resources/vegetarian
  _diets.html

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Communicable Illness

• an illness that can be transmitted or spread
  from one person or animal to another
• 3 factors necessary for this to occur
• Pathogen (disease causing agent)
• Susceptible host
• Method of transmission
• Which of these factors is an ECP most able to
  control?
• (Marotz, p. 130)

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Forms of Transmission

• Airborne
• Occurs from coughing, sneezing, talking
• Examples influenza, colds, meningitis,
  tuberculosis, chickenpox
• Fecal-oral
• Transferred to mouth by hands contaminated with
  fecal matter
• Examples pinworms, hepatitis A, salmonella
• Body fluids
• Transferred by fluids such as blood or mucus
• Examples ringworm, hepatitis B, pink eye
• (Marotz, p. 131)

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Field Trip

• How to Sneeze
• http//youtube.com/watch?vzXXgRvdq7fg

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Control Measures

• Observation
• Policies
• Immunization
• Environmental Control
• Education
• (Marotz, p. 133-146)

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Field Trip

• How can we help children understand control
  measures?
• Crawford the Cat
• Ebook and Coloring Page
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vs_yR-oGNMaA

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Case Study p. 146

• Laura comes to daycare with runny nose and cough.
  Her mother said it was just allergies and left
  quickly.
• Lauras mother is a single-parent who works
  part-time and goes to a community college.
  Shortly after being dropped off, teachers realize
  Laura has a fever, red throat, and swollen glands.

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Case Study, cont.

• How should the teachers handle Laura's immediate
  situation? Should she be allowed to stay or
  should an attempt be made to contact Laura's
  mother? If Laura is allowed to stay at the
  center, what measures can be taken to limit the
  risk of spreading the illness to other children?
• If this is a repeated occurrence, what steps can
  be taken to make sure Laura's mother complies
  with the center's policies? How can the center
  help Laura's mother avoid similar situations in
  the future?

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Wrap-up quote.

• Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn
  from the learner
• put yourself in his place so that you may
  understand
• what he learns and the way he understands it.
• Kierkegaard

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References

• Marotz, L. (2009). Health, safety, and nutrition
  for the young child (7th ed.). Clifton Park, NY
  Thomson Delmar Learning.