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COVID-19 Pandemic and Traditional Chinese Medicines
Published in Hanadi Talal Ahmedah, Muhammad Riaz, Sagheer Ahmed, Marius Alexandru Moga, The Covid-19 Pandemic, 2023
Roheena Abdullah, Ayesha Toor, Hina Qaiser, Afshan Kaleem, Mehwish Iqtedar, Tehreema Iftikhar, Muhammad Riaz, Dou Deqiang
This injection constitutes of Artemisia annua, Flos Lonicerae and Gardeniae Fructus and has anti-pyretic, -viral, and -inflammatory pharmacological properties. In treatment of upper respiratory tract infection and acute Bronchitis has shown to be effective [21, 34]. Reduning injection in combination with biapenem has a better curative effect to treat critical pneumonia and improves patients’ symptoms such as: improved lung function and blood gas indexes and reduced serum inflammatory factor levels [21].
Mechanism of cure
Published in Dinesh Kumar Jain, Homeopathy, 2022
Today we have various examples of drugs that do not prove the homeopathic concept. Antipsychotic drugs like chlorpromazine and thioridazine are useful in schizophrenia, but when these drugs are given to healthy individuals they never produce symptoms of schizophrenia. Similarly, antidepressant drugs like imipramine and amitriptyline used in depression never produce depression in healthy persons. Antacids are used in hyperacidity, and these drugs never produce hyperacidity in healthy individuals. Various antibiotics like ampicillin and erythromycins are used in respiratory tract infections, but they never develop symptoms of respiratory infections in healthy people. Similarly, there are various examples that prove that homeopathic concepts given above are wrong. Antileprosy drugs cure leprosy, but never produce leprosy in healthy persons. Antitubercular drugs cure tuberculosis but never produce the symptoms of tuberculosis when given to a healthy person. Antihypertensive drugs never produce hypertensive states when given to a healthy body. Drugs used in pain like brufen never produce pain in healthy humans.
Management of Common Illness
Published in Miriam Orcutt, Clare Shortall, Sarah Walpole, Aula Abbara, Sylvia Garry, Rita Issa, Alimuddin Zumla, Ibrahim Abubakar, Handbook of Refugee Health, 2021
Asthma is a common inflammatory disease in which the airways are hyper-responsive and constrict easily to stimuli, causing wheeze and breathlessness. The prevalence of severe asthma symptoms is highest in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).1 In addition, children are at high risk of exacerbations due to living conditions, for example, dust and damp. Prevention of respiratory tract infections is important to reduce exacerbations.
Pathophysiology and management of Staphylococcus aureus in nasal polyp disease
Published in Expert Review of Clinical Immunology, 2023
Zhaofeng Xu, Jieying Yan, Weiping Wen, Nan Zhang, Claus Bachert
Currently, there is a lack of therapeutic strategies for S. aureus localized on and within the nasal mucosa. Patients do benefit from antibiotics in acute respiratory tract infections but do not appear to benefit from regular local or long-term antibiotic treatment; adverse events from such treatment and resistance formation to antibiotics would certainly be problematic. Although S. aureus can cause damage to the nasal mucosa, it remains unclear whether clearance of S. aureus would result in clinical benefits; is S. aureus, once having initiated an immune response, also necessary for the chronicity of inflammation? There is evidence that intranasally colonizing S. aureus can spread to other people; however, it may not cause a type 2 inflammatory reaction in these subjects. Novel therapies, such as phages, bacterial vaccines, and nanoparticles, demonstrated to clear S. aureus colonization in in-vitro models, but no clinical trials in humans are available yet. Even after eliminating S. aureus, preventing its recolonization long term could be difficult albeit using strict hygiene measures.
Neurological manifestations of COVID-19: a systematic review and detailed comprehension
Published in International Journal of Neuroscience, 2023
Zeina Hassan Ousseiran, Youssef Fares, Wafaa Takash Chamoun
COVID-19 transmission can occur by either direct mode from covid-19 positive human to human transmission through respiratory droplets or indirect mode from contaminated surfaces and objects and airborne contagions to humans [5]. Disease presentation ranges from asymptomatic (in rare cases) to severe pneumonia and death [6]. The symptoms of this pandemic disease range from mild to moderate in most cases, and sometimes severe with high death risk especially in elderly people and those suffering from chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and others. The most common symptoms identified include lower respiratory tract infection, pneumonia, dry cough, fever, shortness of breath and myalgia; other symptoms may occur but less frequently reported including confusion, sore throat, hemoptysis, runny nose, chills, chest pain, rhinorrhea, and diarrhea with nausea and vomiting [4].
Value of combined detection of serum amyloid A, C-reactive protein and procalcitonin in differential diagnosis of respiratory tract infection in children of China
Published in Annals of Medicine, 2022
Respiratory tract infections are a common respiratory illness, occurring at the turn of the season, especially in children. The clinical features of respiratory infections in children often include cough, runny nose and fever, which if left untreated may prone to develop into lower respiratory tract infection, even causing nephritis, myocarditis, sepsis, rheumatic fever, etc [8]. If the disease cannot be a timely and effective control, the continuous progress of the disease may lead to sepsis, multiple organ failure and septic shock, and even endanger the lives of children [9]. Therefore, timely diagnosis and appropriate treatment are essential for the management of respiratory tract infections. However, conventional culture tests for respiratory tract infections are long, have a low positive diagnosis rate and are of low clinical value. Hence, the search for more accurate and specific tests is of great clinical importance for early and accurate and effective treatment of the disease. In addition, in China, antibiotics are the mainstay of treatment for respiratory tract infections in children. However, antibiotic therapy is not effective for non-bacterial infections and respiratory infections caused by viruses. If antibiotic treatment is applied blindly without a clear diagnosis of the pathogen, it is more likely to increase the risk of dual infection. Therefore, early diagnosis of the disease also plays an important role in determining the type of infection, avoiding the misuse of antibiotics and reducing the incidence of drug resistance.