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Therapeutic Efficacy of Black Pepper in Gastrointestinal Disorders
Published in Megh R. Goyal, Preeti Birwal, Durgesh Nandini Chauhan, Herbs, Spices, and Medicinal Plants for Human Gastrointestinal Disorders, 2023
Black pepper is one of the main flavoring agents in Turkish meals. Black pepper with honey has aphrodisiacal property. It is recommended for the removal of cough and influenza.56 In the botanical family Piperaceae, black pepper and long pepper are well-cognizant species in the family as well as most likely avowed spices in the world. In the conventional medicine system, it is used for remittent fever and it improves the secretion of bile. It is also advised for GIT disorders, such as, dyspepsia, flatulence, constipation and hemorrhoids.23,63
Antituberculosis induced drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms in a pediatric latent tuberculosis infection overdiagnosed as tuberculosis disease
Published in Ade Gafar Abdullah, Isma Widiaty, Cep Ubad Abdullah, Medical Technology and Environmental Health, 2020
W. Setiowulan, R. Rulandani, H.S. Rachman
DRESS during initial phase (before appearance of rash) is easily mistaken as typhoid fever because the patient also has relative bradycardia, a condition that occurs when the heart rate does not increase to the extent that typically accompanies the temperature elevation. This is widely known to be a patognomonic sign of typhoid fever. However, unlike typhoid, various patterns of fever may occur in patients with drug fever, including: continuous fevers; remittent fevers, in which temperatures vary but are consistently elevated from normal; intermittent fevers, which are interrupted by daily normal temperatures; and hectic fevers, which manifest as a combination of intermittent and remittent fever patterns. Hectic fever is the most common pattern of drug fever (Patel & Gallagher 2010).
Bayesian Tail Probabilities for Decision Making
Published in Emmanuel Lesaffre, Gianluca Baio, Bruno Boulanger, Bayesian Methods in Pharmaceutical Research, 2020
Twelve patients with remittent fever (presumably caused by malaria infections) were treated with quinine, another 12 control patients were followed-up without treatment. After three days, 10 patients in the treatment group, but only 2 patients in the control group, had not had a fever. Liebermeister raises the question of how large the probability, that quinine has an antipyretic effect, is.
No preventive or therapeutic efficacy of infliximab against macrophage activation syndrome due to systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Published in Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology, 2019
Z Kiuchi, M Ogura, M Sato, K Kamei, K Ishikura, J Abe, S Ito
A 3-year-old boy developed remittent fever. On day 7 from symptom onset, erythema appeared on his extremities during fever. On day 9, he was admitted to the General Paediatric Department of National Center for Child Health and Development. He had fever, ocular conjunctival congestion, cervical lymphadenopathy, and erythema. The results of his laboratory examinations are shown in Table 1. As his symptoms fulfilled four out of six diagnostic criteria for Kawasaki disease (KD), he was initially diagnosed with incomplete KD (3). He was treated with two courses of IVIG (2 g/kg) on days 9 and 11 with acetylsalicylic acid (30 mg/kg), but his fever persisted. He was administered IFX (5 mg/kg) on day 14 followed by a third IVIG treatment on day 17. His clinical manifestations persisted. A cardiac ultrasound revealed no coronary aneurysms. He developed thrombocytopenia on day 18 (Table 1), and so fulfilled the classification criteria for MAS (4). At this point, he was referred to our Paediatric Rheumatology Department. We diagnosed him with probable systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) combined with MAS, although arthritis was not present as in some cases (5). Notably, his serum IL-18 and ferritin were elevated, further suggesting sJIA (6). His general condition rapidly deteriorated on day 21, and we immediately treated him with two courses of methylprednisolone pulse therapy (MPT, 30 mg/kg/day for 3 consecutive days) followed by 15 mg/day (1 mg/kg) daily oral prednisolone. Although he showed remarkable improvement, he still presented with a slight fever even after MPT. Tocilizumab (TCZ, 8 mg/kg) was started on day 34, and he finally achieved remission (Figure 1). After 4 months, MAS recurred under TCZ following an upper respiratory tract infection, but it was successfully treated with two courses of MPT with cyclosporine A. Nine months after this episode, his prednisolone treatment was reduced to 3 mg/day under TCZ.
Intermittent Ocular Microflutter in a Patient with Acute-Onset Oscillopsia
Published in Neuro-Ophthalmology, 2018
Alberto Galvez-Ruiz, Elena Riva-Amarante, Adolfo Jimenez-Huete, Jose Fernandez Lorente, Oriol Franch Ubia
We present the case of a 47-year-old female patient who experienced acute-onset continuous oscillopsia and lightheadedness in September 2012. In the previous weeks, she experienced remittent fever with chills, which was compatible with influenza, accompanied by hearing loss in the right ear that resolved without sequelae with antipyretic treatment. The patient did not mention any personal or family history of interest.
Acute rheumatic fever associated with tenosynovitis and a unique cytokine profile
Published in Immunological Medicine, 2018
Hiroyuki Wakiguchi, Fumiko Okazaki, Yasuo Suzuki, Takuya Ichimura, Midori Wakabayashi-Takahara, Shin-Ichi Terachi, Kazunobu Ouchi, Shunji Hasegawa
A previously healthy 8-year-old Japanese boy presented to our hospital due to fever with painful swelling of the right hand. He had an 8-d history of remittent fever at admission. The antibiotic treatment administered at a hospital he had previously visited was not effective. The fever persisted and the symptoms affecting his right hand underwent repeated cycles of exacerbations and remissions.