Rheumatic fever

Walt: respond to the presentation give by the public health dept.

On 6 August Glen Innes school had a special assembly with the public health nurse and three of the warriors. Elizabeth, our school nurse came with some other health nurses to talk to us about Rheumatic fever. Elizabeth was explaining that if we have a sore throat that we would have to go with her or Kirsty to do a throat swab. For example Kirsty was the nurse and Elizabeth was the teacher and the three warriors were the students. “Has anyone got a sore throat today” said Elisabeth. Sione raised his hand “come on” said Kirsty “I’ll just do a swab”. Sione didn’t want to so we all had to say ahh with Sione. After that Elizabeth said that if you don’t get your throat checked and don’t look after your skin it could lead to Rheumatic fever.

After they did that little demo, Awen Gutten

beil started talking about Rheumatic fever. Awen explained that if we ever have a sore throat tell someone because it could lead to serious problems. He told us a story about how he got a heart problem. Awen was telling us when he was 9 years old he had a sore throat on a sport day but he didn't want to stay off because he loves sports and he wanted to hang out with his friends. So later he was trying to get out of bed, but he couldn't. He was completely stiff. After seeing the doctor he found out that he had a little hole in his heart. His illness didn't stop him from playing sports.

The message for rheumatic fever is to tell your parents that you have a sore throat before it gets worst. I know I will.