Question

imagine that you are at a friend’s backyard party when her uncle starts to stumble, and complain of dizziness and tiredness. It looks like he is having difficulty breathing. He mentions that he was spraying for insects in the front yard and may have breathed in too much spray. He sits and relaxes, but does not feel any better after 15 minutes. His blue complexion provides a good signal that you should take him to the hospital. On the way to the hospital, his muscles go from tense to limp. Now his breathing has become shallow, and his speech is slurred. The emergency room physician at the hospital finds out that your friend’s uncle had a busy day before the party. He was involved in cleaning algae out of the large pond behind the house before spraying the yard. He ate some old beef stew that was sitting in the refrigerator. The stew did not look or smell bad. Your friend is very concerned about her uncle and asks you to explain what the physicians are looking for as the cause of her uncle’s illness. You explain that the physicians must use a process of elimination to determine what caused her uncle’s problems

What are the possible diseases?

Answer 1

Possible disease that my uncle will have are

1. He was cleaning algae from the pond yesterday so he must have got poisoned by algae as some of them has poisonus toxin in them so this should be checked. Toxin by algae can even cause respiratory arrest
2. He had beef that was smelled yesterday so it might have triggered some reaction due to food poisoning ,that should be checked
3. He was spraying insecticides and most of them are poisonous as well as substance like organophosphorus are present in insecticides so it should be checked for

These should be checked and then a decision can be made