Physiological Disorders

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BTEC National Diploma in Health Studies

Physiological Disorders

Assignment 2

TASK 3 b)

To make a diagnosis with conditions such as diabetes and breast cancer might be not easy meaning straightforward there are steps that are involved which sometimes make it difficult. It’s very difficult to a sick person to understand and accept the fact that their life is going to change now because of the diagnosis that a health care professional made to the individual with a particular disorder. We can distinguish many different signs and symptoms of those diseases. Patients with diabetes could experience increased thirst, passing water frequently, especially at night, tiredness and fatigue, loss of weight, genital itching or recurrent thrush. Because many of these symptoms may be present in different diseases and conditions, therefore differential diagnoses can be diagnoses for the patient.

Many of those senses can be detected and observed by health professional such as doctor.

Diabetes symptoms may be misdiagnosed with many other illnesses such as:  - a rare genetic disease that has fructose sugar in the urine,  - a rare form of endocrine pancreatic cancer or impaired glucose tolerance. A doctor will need to do further tests to make sure that he give the patient right diagnosis. This will help with the doctor final diagnosis but being able to know and to distinguishing between 2 or more diseases with similar signs and symptoms. To determine what each patient is suffering from professionals must do certain tests and examinations to exclude certain possibilities.

Doctor will do Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT), Fasting plasma Glucose Test (FGT) and take diabetes family history in consideration.

Breast cancer also can have possible difficulties involved in making diagnosis.

Symptoms of breast cancer include: changes to breast such as: a lump or thickening in an area of the breast, a change in the size or shape of a breast, dimpling of the skin, a change in the shape of your nipple, particularly if it turns in, sinks into the breast or becomes irregular in shape, a blood-stained discharge from the nipple, a rash on a nipple or surrounding area or a swelling or lump in your armpit. These symptoms might be similar with other conditions and illnesses such as:  - may cause breast changes,  - may cause swollen or tender breasts.  - breast changes occur from pregnancy,  ,  , Hormone therapies, breast cysts, , ,  and . In order to give the patient right diagnose a doctor will need to make test which include: breast examination, mammography, breast ultrasound, needle biopsy and markers blood tests.  Along with the tests and examinations professionals must investigate the patient’s medical history and family cancer history which helps also with the diagnosis.

TASK 4

Diabetes

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Breast Cancer

TASK 5

Alternative care strategies for patient with diabetes

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