What Is Henoch-Schoenlein Purpura

Su Laurent: Well Treasure Island lets look it is the childrens world. And this is where all activity takes place. With children you are coming either with medical problems or surgical problems or in fact with the pediatric problem such as broken legs. You probably noticed that is care take the children and nurses and doctors will look over the place lots and lots of activity that’s really how we like it its fairly unlike adult world. I think we might stop again straight down to the play -- so here we can find in that. And this is Elliot and his Mom Jude. Elliot came to hospital last night. Can tell us that why he came to hospital Jude Kotwal: Yeah, he had rational inequalities legs and his toes and as probably joint is comfortable bought him straight right me. Su Laurent: Can you tell us what base at the diagnosis is this? Jude Kotwal: This is called a chest pain and I can’t pronounce the long word, but I think well it has the information on this. So, yeah-- Su Laurent: I think it’s probably Henoch-Schonlein purpura which is wide if the difficult ones were announced would call it HSP the sort. Jude Kotwal: Sure. Su Laurent: You got some green great spot having with your legs, can you show us your sports the career. Jude Kotwal: We have a look. Su Laurent: You don’t have to if there – too Jude Kotwal: No Su Laurent: Can you show us your legs? Jude Kotwal: Wow, Some great ones that. Su Laurent: If those in good sports. This is the condition that right commonly affects young children and its clears care isn’t single legs bought in single in joint. Jude Kotwal: I rush this --. Su Laurent: It’s a fluid rash, its something you probably never seen in the book or head about Jude Kotwal: No, I never heard by just be either, didn’t have closer. Su Laurent: Exactly and fortunately, something it is get better by itself but little of children need in the hospital for little while with HSP. What you have feel long, you having something just. I wondered carry all of with approve. Su Laurent: Okay here we are in the pediatric assessment unit, this is actually fairly new venture in pediatrics and they close to the can see there more and more units like this. The idea is to try keep children home at the tool possible. If you can’t keep them in home and to bring them into the hospital to just a few hours to try and get them better and then send them home. So this is the half way between causality and the childrens ward. And if we come in here we can meet Mihailo, he is just arrived. Here we go and he is Mihailo and Gordana jajcanin and this is Mom. Gordana can you tell us, where you -- kind of hospital today. Gordana Jajcanin: Well Mihailo complained yesterday afternoon when he got back from school about to a wake. It was his left ear over there I gave him dose of paracetamol its seem to have got – but then over tonight about 2 o clock in the middle of the night, he was very, very restless and he started complaining again then from this morning he said mommy the other one is hurting as well. Su Laurent: Thank you. Gordana Jajcanin: Okay, He had so many last winter, last season yes, between five or six I think all together before the New Year, throughout the New Year until February. Su Laurent: I mean that he -- very well anyway, so really first part of the school and some you – this, thought little bit about it. Female Speaker: Well period was set up to three years ago and that we need to take children any as like government recommendation and just stop the fore out which is, she get the children better and care to nice environment and gets fast facts pediatricians and children, and he has like a fast track calls, so mom cannot stay up and they can put and we can get well by doctors. Su Laurent: And it’s run by specialist nurses. Female Speaker: Of course. Gordana Jajcanin: And one of the best. Thank you very much. Female Speaker: so this is one of the base Treasure Island world and just introduce you to the young Shawn he is about to get in to surgery on use. Have an operation on your right arm you break that, this is his mother Melody and this is Andrea charge for keeping children of keep right here on the ward. Let’s speak to the most important person first. So what did you do, what happened and how did you break this? You are not going to tell me, so we ask your mommy. Okay, let’s ask Melody. Melody what happened. Melody Dawson: He jumped out of my TV stand. Female Speaker: Of your TV stand and he is got he have surgery, again fractures it Melody Dawson: He is sort to just above the elbow and happened and he came back Wednesday, yesterday to have never explain take it same plan on the bone strips so that go to take down and then we do it. Female Speaker: But he is asking of - launching the.-- Female Speaker: The school completely. Actually he is doing his lessons here and also he has a bit of fun, so let’s talk about that to Andrea. Andrea what he did to keep the children here? Andrea Nicholas: Well anything that they want really, we have games, painting, played computer games, videos and he can -- baby would like the such as normalized things for them. Female Speaker: Particularly move the patients like Shawn, who he is got his arm in sling, he is about have another operation but he is still have listening. Andrea Nicholas: Oh! Yes he is could shouldn’t have recoupable. Melody Dawson: Some extra, things Female Speaker: So once he has the operation how long will he have to stay here on the ward. Andrea Nicholas: Get treatment and go home tomorrow. You have to depend how is tomorrow then they can go home unless the stay here Female Speaker: And how is the Treasure Island will been for use. Melody Dawson: Really not touch all of us describe. Female Speaker: It was a brand new unit and Andrea how long you been here? Andrea Nicholas: I have been here for about three and half years now. Okay Female speaker: Okay, I’ll doing –- Female Speaker: And it’s quite using that people like self that to keep, well in a wonderful fresh hospital like this seems very nice you even go, on your own unit. Andrea Nicholas: Go and play we have got teenage place well, we got nice site area were they can go and the summer one is nice like and go and play and we have a Treasure Island Ship, which is lovely and they common get when we --the amount in the beds. So presumably summer. Female Speaker: Thanks for talking to us, good luck to Shawn. Look and see some other patients their waiting for same kind of thing.