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Words to be memorised
Nouns: measles, membrane, limb, nursing, diet, amount, solution, condition.
Verbs: to prevent, to protect, to clean, to place, to kill, to darken, to drink, to rinse, to bathe, to wash out, to isolate, to expose.
Adjectives: widespread, grave, mucous, sick, clean, boiled
Other words and expressions: to put into bed, to call -a doctor in, at first, instead of, for this purpose, to get purulent — гноиться, to be vaccinated — сделать прививку Filatov-Koplik's spots — пятна Филатова-Коплика
Exercises
I. Answer the following questions:
1. What kind of disease is measles?
2. In what way is it spread?
3. How long is the incubation period?
4. What are the prodromal symptoms?
5. What must be done with the appearance of these symptoms?
6. What is the disease characterized by?
7. Which is the most characteristic symptom of this disease?
8. Where does the rash appear first?
9. What preventive measures must be taken to exposed
children?
10. When does desquamation begin?
11. What is the prognosis of the disease if it is not
complicated?
12. What measures usually prevent complications?
13. How must the sick child be nursed?
14. In what case is the patient taken to the hospital?
II. Translate the following sentences:
a) 1. Taken in time, any general well-known measures for given
disease bring good results.
2. The physician observed marked improvement obtained due
to proper treatment.
3. If vaccinated in time, children do not develop dangerous
complications.
4. The child exposed contracted measles.
b) 1.Measles being an infectious disease, the sick child must be isolated as soon as possible.
2. Measles begins like a bad cold, catarrhal symptoms such as a runny or blocked nose, sneezing, coughing and others being present through the illness.
3. Measles appears to have been known from an early period in the history of medicine, it being mentioned in the writings of the Arabian physicians.
4. Measles is believed to be one of the most contagious diseases, its main symptom being a specific macular eruption which first appears on the mucous membranes of the mouth.
c) 1. One of the worst complications of measles, but fortunately
a rare one is gangrenous stomatitis.
2. Mild cases of measles are as contagious as severe ones.
3. If one finds characteristic spots on the mucous membrane
of the mouth, one should suspect measles.
4. One must keep in mind all measures that may prevent
complications.
5. Measles is more prevalent than any other eruptive fever and
one to which human beings are universally susceptible.
d)1.Считается, что корь – одно из самых опасных заболеваний детства.
2.Корь распространяется воздушно-капельным путём, причём дети легко заражаются, даже после короткого контакта.
3.Противокоревую вакцину рекомендуют вводить в возрасте 9-10 месяцев.
4.Если корь протекает тяжело, за ней могут последовать осложнения, такие как пневмония, бронхит и др.
5. Больного ребёнка можно лечить дома, но хороший уход крайне важен.
III. Read the text and say what new information it contains as compared with the previous text:
Measles is the commonest infectious disease of childhood. It is characterised by catarrhal symptoms of the eyes, nose and throat, fever and a typical eruption located on the mucous membranes and on the skin. Very young infants are relatively unsusceptible, especially if they are breast-fed. They become more susceptible after the sixth month and there is no infectious disease to which there is less natural immunity than to measles. The most frequent and most important complication of measles is the involvement of the respiratory tract (pneumonia, bronchitis). Middle ear inflammation sometimes occurs.
IV. Say what mother should do while looking after the baby
who has measles; speak about the period of rash
.
V. Using the Table of Infectious Diseases on p. 95 write down the facts about chickenpox, scarlet fever, measles.
Comparing the facts speak about a) the way of transmission; b) The duration of incubation period and complications of these three diseases, c) Eruptive stage of chicken-pox and scarlet fever, scarlet fever and measles.