I've had an upper respiratory ailment for three weeks now...
and I'm going to try this home remedy. What the doctor prescribed worked a bit, but I want over this.
Thursday January 11, 2007 at 5:49pm
Over the Counter Viagra?
I think Lindsay's on to something - this could put the viagra spammers out of business.
Monday January 8, 2007 at 6:38am
Feeling fluish?
It's coming.
Seems like the flu may be in gear around Central Pennsylvania. We know several people down with both a stomach ailment, and a different, respiratory and fever bug. Our ten girl basketball squad was down to seven for our Saturday morning game due to illness. Then, there's this from Florida:
A 9-year-old girl has become the first flu death of the season in Florida, according to a report by FLORIDA TODAY news partner WKMG Local 6 News.
Health officials said Nichole Lang-Veru, a fourth-grader in Hillsborough County, died Dec. 27 after she became ill.
An autopsy confirmed her death was flu-related, the report said.
Doctors said Lang-Veru's death should serve as a warning to parents because the girl seemed to be a healthy 9-year-old.
Recently, Florida was identified as one of the nation's three hot spots for the flu, according to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
Thursday January 4, 2007 at 9:11am
Chronic Cough
Even as a teenager, I had a regular cough, attributed to hay fever and allergies and post nasal drip and whatever. I must admit, it depresses me a bit to see this article:
Chronic cough and phlegm in a young adult nearly double the risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), researchers here said. Action Points
Explain to interested patients that smoking is the primary cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but that this study suggests that a chronic cough and phlegm in young adults in an independent predictor of the disease.
Explain to interested patients that COPD is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, killing 122,283 Americans in 2003. On the other hand, chronic wheezing and shortness of breath do not appear to be linked to an increased risk of COPD, according to Isa Cerveri, M.D., of San Matteo Hospital and the University of Pavia.
The findings come from a study of 5,002 volunteers, age 20 to 44, who were monitored for a median of 8.9 years, Dr. Cerveri and colleagues reported in the January issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
All volunteers had normal lung function at the beginning of the study, where normal function was defined as having the ratio of one-second forced expiratory volume (FEV1) to forced vital capacity (FVC) of at least 70%.
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However, those who had chronic cough and phlegm both at baseline and at the end of follow-up had a nearly threefold-increased risk of developing COPD compared with asymptomatic participants. The incidence rate ratio was 2.88, with a 95% confidence interval from 1.44 to 5.79.