Can you solve these medical mysteries?

1. The patient is a seven-year old boy with leg pain, swollen gums and red dots all over his skin. His height and weight had slipped, and he had a mild fever. HIs appetite was poor and his diet consisted of cookies, bread, yogurt and milk.
What disease is this boy suffering from?

2.The patient is a 48-year old woman suffering fatigue and a potassium level of 8.2 mmol/L. After treatment, three causes were thought of: renal failure, hemolysis, or supplements. They were all wrong. The cause was identified when the patient said ______.
What type of juice if drunk in liters would cause a potassium level of 8.2 mmol/L?

3. A 22-year old, with a history of drug abuse, collapses. After being brought to the hospital he is given cpr, shocked five times, given ten different types of drugs and hooked on a respirator, he is declared dead. Five min. later, a nurse comes into his room and finds him alive with a blood pressure of 90/60.
What is this penomenon called?

4. Describe a poison that would cause fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea, weakness, and a peripheral sensory neuropathy. Also other symptoms would be anemia, anisopoikilocytosis, basophjilic stippling, irregular pyknotic nuclei, and Howell-Jolly bodies, Mee's lines on fingernails and toenails, and hyperkeratosis.


Answer all four questions correctly and you automatically get 10 points. Remember spelling counts!

1. scurvy

2. she had Addison's disease? Citrus (orange/grapefruit) juices.

3. spurious asystole

4. heavy metal poisoning - probably lead

Could the boy have small pox or scarlet fever or measels or the mumps. the 22 yeasr old had a near death experience o.d. and came back orange jice or apple juice or cranberry juice carrot juice