upper respiratory tract infections
Upper Respiratory Tract Infections: To What Extent is the Management Evidence Based?
... Upper Respiratory Tract Infections To What Extent is the Management Evidence Based? ORIGINAL ARTICLE Upper Respiratory Tract Infections To What Extent is the Management Evidence Based? C L Teng, M Med[.] ...
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Parents’ self-directed practices towards the use of antibiotics for upper respiratory tract infections in Makkah, Saudi Arabia
... Upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) are com- mon in children, and most of these are viral in origin and are often self-limiting ...
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Upper respiratory tract infections in children: A normal stage or high parental concern?
... has upper respiratory tract ...the infections per- sist and no abnormalities are detected, it is very difficult for the pediatrician to treat the ...
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Role of guaifenesin in the management of chronic bronchitis and upper respiratory tract infections
... A large placebo-controlled pilot study explored a range of objective and subjective outcome measures in patients with acute URTIs. The most promising measures included a daily diary for patient-reported outcome (PRO) ...
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Principles of Judicious Antibiotic Prescribing for Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Pediatrics
... Most upper respiratory tract infections are caused by viruses and re- quire no ...bacterial upper respiratory tract infections, including acute otitis media, acute ...
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Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of bacterial pathogens isolated from outpatients with Upper respiratory tract infections in Kitui District Hospital, Kenya
... The objectives of this study were; To determine the prevalence of upper respiratory tract infections in patients 'of different age groups and sexes, to isolate, identify and assess the d[r] ...
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Do children’s upper respiratory tract infections benefit from probiotics?
... gastrointestinal infections (relative risk [RR]: ...9-34]), respiratory tract infections (RR: ...gastrointestinal infections that lasted >2 days (RR: ...of respiratory ...
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Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Young Children: Duration of and Frequency of Complications
... Estimation of the frequency of bacterial sinusitis as a complication of URI (be- tween 0.5% and 5%) has been hampered by the lack of a direct, noninvasive, and precise measure of infecti[r] ...
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Group A Streptococcus-Associated Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in a Day-Care Center
... tococci isolated during the subsequent survey, a total of 47% of the day-care center population had positive cultures or rapid antigen detection test results (49% of children and 33% of [r] ...
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Principles of Judicious Use of Antimicrobial Agents for Pediatric Upper Respiratory Tract Infections
... Currently, millions of courses of unnecessary an- tibiotics are given each year. From 1990 to 1992, almost one in six physician office visits resulted in an antimicrobial prescription. These included . 17 mil- lion ...
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Pharmacoepidemiology of common colds and upper respiratory tract infections in children and adolescents in Germany
... the respiratory tract sys- tem are not officially licensed for use in children, which means that they have never been tested rigorously for pediatric safety and efficacy ...
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The management of upper respiratory tract infections
... In developing countries where rheumatic fever and suppurative complications are still relatively prevalent, antibiotic therapy is still appropriate for patients with streptococcal pharyn[r] ...
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Antibiotic Prescribing for Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Sarawak District Hospitals
... Upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) is mostly viral in aetiology, but patients presenting with such complaints are frequently prescribed ...
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The modulatory effects of commensal neisseriae on upper respiratory tract infections
... urogenital tract of humans and is the causative agent of the localised infection ...human upper respiratory tract, particularly the nasopharynx, and has been found to asymptomatically colonise ...
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Chinchilla and Murine Models of Upper Respiratory Tract Infections with Respiratory Syncytial Virus
... Immunostained respiratory mucosa lining the nasal septum (B), olfactory mucosa lining the turbinate (C), and the dorsal surface of the nasal cavity (D) are shown in panels B, C, and D, ...
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RCT of Montelukast as Prophylaxis for Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Children
... The primary outcome measure was the number and duration of URI episodes. Secondary outcome measures included incidence of respiratory system infec- tions (acute otitis media, pneumonia, tonsillitis, or ...
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Cost effectiveness of gargling for the prevention of upper respiratory tract infections
... Background: In Japan, gargling is a generally accepted way of preventing upper respiratory tract infection (URTI). The effectiveness of gargling for preventing URTI has been shown in a randomized ...
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Parental knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding antibiotic use for acute upper respiratory tract infections in children: a cross-sectional study in Palestine
... The final questionnaire consisted of four sections (A, B, C, and D). Section A contained demographic data, including age, gender, education levels, residency, income, number of children, health insur- ance status and ...
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The Misuse of Antibiotics for Treatment of Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Children
... In children with an uncomplicated course (with- out a secondary bacterial infection) fever lasted for a mean of 3.6 days regardless of treatment. Of[r] ...
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ANTIBACTERIAL STUDY OF POLYHERBAL THERAPEUTIC AGENTS USED IN RESPIRATORY DISEASES
... of respiratory diseases such as asthma [12-15] , cough [16-17] , upper respiratory tract infections [18] , bronchitis [19] , Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome [20] , tonsillitis ...
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