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A Cold Shoulder to Cold - At Your Risk

... the brain. There is a surge in cases of chronic sinusitis because of unchecked pollution. Chronic sinus may ...eople beat the heat with chilled drinks. Further sinusitis is always on the rise due to bacteria and fungus in the atmosphere. Traffic pollution is also a big ...

A Cold Shoulder to Cold - At Your Risk

... the brain. There is a surge in cases of chronic sinusitis because of unchecked pollution. Chronic sinus may ...eople beat the heat with chilled drinks. Further sinusitis is always on the rise due to bacteria and fungus in the atmosphere. Traffic pollution is also a big ...

A New Test Designed To Track Down Allergens

...ergic rhinitis, digestive disturbances, eczema and sinusitis are some of the common allergic responses. At a press conference, Dr. Ravi Ramalingam, a consultant at KKR ENT Hospital told reporters in Chennai, “some allergies can seriously affect a victim's quality of life and lead to significant loss of work ...

Common Cold All Too Easy To Catch

...f such illnesses as otitis media (ear infections), sinusitis (sinus infections) and can make both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease worse. "Most people know about the need for good hygiene, particularly when interacting with cold sufferers. What they may not be aware of, and the study shows, is...

Chronic Sinusitis Resulting From Weakene Immune System

...the inner lining of the nose are linked to chronic sinusitis that fails to respond to the usual current treatme... showed that sinus tissue from people with chronic sinusitis that resisted treatment had 30 times lower than normal activity of a so-called toll-like receptor ge...

Immune Response Linked to “Ghost” Parasites and Severely Congested Sinuss

...t to the concept that really severe and persistent sinusitis may be a case of a misplaced immune response direc... higher levels of AMCase expression than the other sinusitis patients and controls. Gene expression of another inflammatory protein, called interleukin-13, alrea...

Teething Problems of Sinuplasty

...d as a major breakthrough that offers hope to many sinusitis sufferers. It cost thousands of dollars and has been performed on about 500 patients since November 2004. But the procedure has not been scientifically proved and is not approved by the FDA. Only two studies have been conducted one involving 6 cad...

Children Of Smoking Parents Face Increased Risk Of Bacterial Infection

...us pneumonia, a bacteria that can cause pneumonia, sinusitis and meningitis. Nothing, not even a hike in the cigarette price, ban on smoking seems to help people quit smoking. Let us hope that this study at least helps people quit smoking. The results of this interesting study can be found in the latest issu...

Age Can Changes Symptoms Of Sinusitis

...held September 25-28, 2005 on the impact of age on sinusitis symptoms//. This study had involved 514 adult patients with inflammatory paranasal sinus disease at a single tertiary care facility. The term inflammatory paranasal sinus disease is used to encompass CRS, CRS with polyposis, recurrent acute rhinosin...

Children With Sinusitis Lead A Better Life After Surgery

...s recommended for children who suffer from chronic sinusitis only when other treatment methods fail, a new research suggests that life after surgery for these children becomes much better. // Removal of adenoids is the first-line surgical therapy for chronic rhinosinusitis in children. Functional endoscopic s...

Asthma Patients With Sinusitis More Difficult To Treat

A new study shows sinusitis in asthma patients tends to be more severe and res...ower airway in these patients. Non-asthmatics with sinusitis however had a higher incidence of headache and nasal discharge compared to patients with asthma and ...

Chronic Fatigue, Pain Linked to Sinusitis

...onic fatigue //were nine times more likely to have sinusitis symptoms than those who felt rested and well. Als...an the pain-free patients to have such symptoms of sinusitis as facial pressure, heavy-headedness or frontal headache, Chester says. Doctors who specialize in s...

Humming helps sinusitis

...ew York, humming could be a natural way of keeping sinusitis at bay in those at danger. Sinusitis affects up to...e that a daily hum will help those at risk to keep sinusitis at bay, the researchers say....

Dampness related to asthma

... in damp homes had suffered pneumonia, bronchitis, sinusitis or tonsillitis over the last year. Report author Maritta Kilpelainen of Turku University, said: "The risk of asthma was about twice as high when exposed to home dampness. Moulds release tiny spores into the air that can trigger asthma symptoms. Mou...

Cost-effective antibiotics for sinusitis treatment

... data from 29,102 adults with a diagnosis of acute sinusitis receiving initial antibiotic treatment. The antibiotic treatment received was divided into first-line therapy and second-line therapy. First-line antibiotics include amoxycillin, trimethoprim/sulphamethoxazole or erythromycin. Results showed that t...

TELITHROMYCIN - the proven effective new drug for cap

...of chronic bronchitis (ABECB), and acute bacterial sinusitis (ABS) and is marketed by Aventis Pharma....

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