reserved EDITORIAL Understanding cough A.H. Morice*‚ J. Widdicombe#‚ P. Dicpinigaitis}‚ L. Groenkez A recent meeting on antitussive strategies presented an opportunity to review current practice in the treatment of acute cough due to respiratory tract infection (RTI). Multiple factors contribute to the present lack of consensus as to the appropriate management of this common condition. Firstly‚ terminology is problematic‚ both in relation to how cough itself is described‚ and in the classification
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Whooping Cough in Maricopa County The community I have chosen is Maricopa County located in southeast Arizona. According to the United Census Bureau (2011)‚ Maricopa County has an estimated population of 3‚880‚244. The county has a total area of 9‚224.27 square miles‚ of which 9‚203.14 square miles (or 99.77%) is land and 21.13 square miles (or 0.23%) is water (U.S. Census Bureau‚ 2011). Maricopa County is the fourth largest county in the United States. The population in Maricopa County equates
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Rebecca Natalus 6th Period Whooping Cough (Pertussis) Pertussis is a respiratory tract infection that is very contagious. It got its name because of the sharp high-pitched intake of air that makes a “whooping” sound that follows a fit of coughs. It was originally considered a childhood disease but now it affects those children that are too young to have completed vaccination and those who have slowly lost the immunity to it. This can cause death in infants‚ which is why pregnant women should be
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ASCOF® Principles of Marketing MKG501 PREPARED BY: GROUP 2 ALELIE MADELEINE C. LAGASCA BRYAN JOHN TAN CHRISTOPHER JOHN REYES NORILINE MARIANO PALILEO JOHN ROMAR BACOSA PADUA BACKGROUND AND SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS Ascof® is a natural‚ herbal cough medicine produced by Pascual Laboratories‚ a consumer healthcare corporation in the Philippines. The product is made from Vitex Negundo L. (Lagundi)‚ an aromatic shrub native to the South and Southeast Asian regions. Lagundi is one of the herbal medicines
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Pertussis‚ or whopping cough is a very serious respiratory disease (CDC Prevention). Whopping cough can affect all ages‚ but can be fatal for children under a year old. Whopping cough has many common cold symptoms such as fever‚ runny nose and coughing (CDC Prevention). The textbook explains how Whopping Cough got its name from its common symptom of a breath that resembles a “whoop” sound. Pertussis can affect people of all ages‚ but can be very serious‚ even deadly‚ for babies less than a year
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HOME REMEDIES FOR COUGH AND COLD My Remedy The common cold is the most common human disease globally affected both men and women. Not to mention that in the Philippines there were clinical studies and evidences that number of incidences was increasing not just in big cities but also in rural and far flung areas. In such‚ as student researcher I would like to personally identify my own basic home remedy just to alleviate crisis brought by this most common
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before‚ and he was not fatigued nor confused upon wakening. He had complete memory of events prior to the syncope‚ and presented with no chest pain‚ nausea‚ palpitations‚ nor sweating pre and post syncope. The only precipitating factor was excessive cough‚ which had onset 5 weeks ago. Mr. KH has significant cardiac history of 2 Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty in 1991 and 1994‚ and had suffered Myocardial Infarction in 1999‚ after which a stent was placed. The review of systems did
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years past. The commercial was used to promote the adult pertussis vaccine to help prevent the spread of the illness to infants. Many people recall this commercial because it was filled with constant infant coughs‚ but many don’t know the cause of pertussis‚ or whooping cough. Whooping cough is caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis (“Causes and Transmission”‚ 2015). Bordetella pertussis is a pathogen that belongs to the domain bacteria. The species name‚ Bordetella pertussis‚
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education‚ and fully explaining the importance of the whooping cough vaccination. This should lead to more buy-in from the parents and in turn increase the vaccination rates for students. This begins with a very basic explanation of what epidemiology is. A simple overview of epidemiology and its basic concepts is the first step to health education. First‚ what is epidemiology
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$250‚000 when they are injured by a negligent doctor. A child was taken by her mother to a clinic because she was coughing and wheezing. The clinic failed to identify the cause of her symptoms and the child died of Whopping Cough. Despite there being an epidemic of Whopping Cough in California at the time‚ doctors failed to run a blood test that could have saved the six week old child. Because of MICRA’s cap‚ the child’s parents could only receive $250‚000 for their loss. Doctors and insurance companies
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