common cold/fever

Fever and upper respiratory tract infections (URI) are frequently-encountered preoperative comorbidities. Whether or not to proceed with anesthesia for a child with common cold is still a continuing dilemma for anesthesiologists. We, anesthesiologists often feel uncomfortable in making a decision

OBJECTIVE To explore the therapeutic effect of acupuncture at Dazhui (GV 14) for abating fever of common cold. METHODS Two hundred and sixty-one cases were randomly assigned to a treatment group of 133 cases and a control group of 128 cases. The treatment group were treated with electroacupuncture

Joshandah, polypharmaceutical herbal preparations, are used in the form of a sweetened decoction for the treatment of common cold, catarrh, cough and associated fevers in Unani (Greco-Arab) medicine. The rationale of their therapeutic efficacy is discussed in the light of reported

OBJECTIVE To determine whether inhaling fully humidified air at 43 degrees C gave more benefit to cold sufferers than inhaling air at 30 degrees C. METHODS Randomised double blind trial. Setting--General practice and the common cold research unit. METHODS 87 Unselected patients with typical acute

This short reply contests two assumptions made by the authors of Mayrhuber et al's. "With fever it's the real flu I would say." The first is that there is influenza can be reliably defined by a medical case definition. The second is that this small qualitative study can be generalisable.

OBJECTIVE To observe clinical therapeutic effect of acupuncture in abatement of fever. METHODS Eighty-six cases of high fever were randomly divided into two groups, an acupuncture group (n = 45) treated with acupuncture at Dazhui (GV 14) and a drug group (n = 41) treated with intramuscular injection

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that many nursing home residents with an apparently blunted fever response (maximum temperature less than 101 degrees F) may actually have a significant change in temperature (delta T greater than or equal to 2.4 degrees F) which is not recognized because of a low

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To study the fever perception and self-care of pharmacy personnel as well as the information given to customers about the management of fever problems, a random sample of 152 Norwegian pharmacists and 150 pharmacy technicians were interviewed, in 1989, by a national opinion poll company. One-third