Proper levels can reduce the risk of stress fractures, inflammatory injuries and upper respiratory tract infections.
It therefore appears to be an attractive alternative treatment for upper respiratory tract infections.
Coughing is one of the most common symptoms of colds and flu and other respiratory tract infections.
They had had fewer upper respiratory tract infections by the age of one than the other group.
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Eye and respiratory tract irritant that may also affect the central nervous system.
The change lets it grow in a human respiratory tract, which is cooler than the virus' natural home: a bird's gastrointestinal tract.
Bronchial inflammation generates free radicals, and there is evidence that the antioxidant levels in the respiratory tract lining of asthmatics are reduced.
Ferrets are often used in flu research because the animal's respiratory tract responds to flu viruses in much the same way as a human's.
At my first M and M as a medical student, I heard the story of a patient who had received antibiotics for an upper respiratory tract infection.
Antibiotics for the purpose of endocarditis prevention are still recommended for high-risk patients undergoing certain invasive procedures involving the dental area, respiratory tract and infected skin or musculoskeletal tissues.
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The key here is for every American to have a plan this year for themselves and their families to know what to do when the inevitable respiratory tract infections come.
"We have had a lot of nervous patients with minimal respiratory tract symptoms, " said Dr. Mark Bell, principal of Emergent Medical Associates, which operates 18 emergency departments in Southern California.
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He said estimates suggested that each year passive smoking in children accounted for more than 20, 000 cases of lower respiratory tract infection, 200 cases of bacterial meningitis, and 40 sudden infant deaths.
It is not known if the Coxsackie B virus grows in the respiratory tract or in the gut -- so no one is sure if it is passed through mucus or feces.
People who have COPD can be more susceptible to such respiratory tract infections, and may experience exacerbations episodes of potentially life-threatening shortness of breath when they catch a cold or breath in air pollution or other irritants.
In CIC clinical trials, the most common side effect were diarrhea (16% vs 5% placebo), abdominal pain (7% vs 6%), flatulence (6% vs 5%), upper respiratory tract infection (5% vs 4%), sinusitis (3% vs 2%) and abdominal distension (3% vs 2%).
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In 2003, during the severe acute respiratory syndrome epidemic, 76 percent of Hong Kong residents wore simple masks, and in this case, mask use was associated with a lower incidence of SARS, as well as upper respiratory tract infections and influenza.
In a report published late Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, samples from three patients -- all of whom died -- had mutations that have previously been shown to increase transmissibility, and to help the virus grow in a mammal's respiratory tract.
They found that 48 percent of beverages obtained from soda fountains contained coliform bacteria, 11 percent contained E. coli (which are mostly harmless, but some can cause diarrhea, urinary tract infections, respiratory illness and pneumonia), and 17 percent had Chryseobacterium meningosepticum (which could sicken newborns or adults with weakened immune systems).
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