Use your newfound knowledge to determine the hormones, glands and/or diseases involved in the following scenarios.
1. Experience of increasingly stronger contractions during labor.
2. Adolescents voice cracks when talking, deeper voice. Increase in facial hair.
3. Switching to night shift 2 months ago. Trouble with sleep cycle since switching
shift.
4. Gave birth two days ago. Experiencing problems when nursing but process gets
better after each session of nursing.
5. Bugged out eyes, loss of 5 lbs in last two weeks - no change in diet.
6. Two episodes of kidney stones in last 2 months; no prior history of kidney stones.
7. Mark is 15 years old and only 4 feet and 4 inches tall. His height was normal up
to the time he was 9 years old, but he hasn't grown since then.
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The parents of a 9-year-old girl bring their daughter to the ed. for the last 12 hours, the child has suffered severe nausea and vomiting, as well as diarrhoea and abdominal cramps. further discussion with the child indicates that she suffers from blurred vision and headache. the parents originally were worried about bringing the child to the ed because they feared deportation since the family are illegal immigrants employed to pick strawberries on a nearby farm. on direct questionning, the parents admit that the child was assisting with spraying crops with pesticides the previous day. none of the family members was wearing any protecting clothing. her bp is 88/48 mmhg, pulse is 90/min, rr 33/min, temp 38 c. the child appears sweaty and confused. auscultation of the lungs reveals a diffuse wheeze bilaterally. pupils are miotic and the child has diffuse muscle weakness. which of the following interventions is the most appropriate treatment? - atropine- charcoal- glucagon- naloxone- exposure: consider organophosphate poisoning, which inhibits cholinesterase and results in accumulation of ach in both muscarinic and nicotinic sites. pralidoxime activates achatropine competes with ach only at muscarinic receptors, but will not reverse nicotinic effectscharcoal = gastric decontaminationglucagon = reverse beta-blocker overdosenaloxone = reverse effects of opioids