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Zinc beats the common cold
A study led by Dr. Harri Hemila of the University of Helsinki in Finland has found that lozenges containing high-dose zinc can shorten the length of the common cold by about 3 days. Previous research suggested that zinc lozenges help people with allergies to shorten their suffering with the common cold, but the new study indicates that people without allergies had the same benefits as those with allergies.
Source: Dental Abstracts - September 1, 2018 Category: Dentistry Tags: Extract Source Type: research
Starting your baby on solids? Here are three new things I tell parents to do
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All pediatricians have certain “speeches” they can do in their sleep — like the safe sleep speech, the potty-training speech, the healthy diet speech, or the speeches for managing fever, common colds, or vomiting and diarrhea. But research over the past few years has changed one of those speeches: the speech about starting solid foods.
I still say the same things about waiting until at least age 4 months to start (closer to 6 months is likely better, especially if baby is getting breast milk), and about not starting two new foods at a time (so as to know the culprit should baby get constipated ...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - February 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Healthy Eating Parenting Safety Source Type: news
Allergy genuflection? It's surmount with special focus on ear, nose and throat.
Abstract
The system that protects body from infectious agents is immune system. On occasions, the system seldom reacts with some foreign particles and causes allergy. Allergies of the ear, nose and throat (ENT) often have serious consequences, including impairment and emotional strain that lowers the quality of life of patients. This is further responsible for the common cold, cough, tonsillitis, dermal infection, chest pain and asthma-like conditions which disturb one's day to day life. The present review enlightens some common ENT allergies which one can suffer more frequently in one's lifetime, and ignorance le...
Source: Allergologia et Immunopathologia - January 31, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Gupta D, Deshmukh L, Gupta R, Sandhu SS Tags: Allergol Immunopathol (Madr) Source Type: research
Medical News Today: Benadryl (diphenhydramine)
Benadryl (diphenhydramine) is a brand-name, over-the-counter product that's typically used to relieve symptoms of hay fever (seasonal allergies), other allergies, and the common cold. It's also used to relieve itchy skin due to insect bites, hives, and other causes. Learn about side effects, warnings, dosage, and more.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 17, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Allergy Source Type: news
Vitamins: stop taking the pills
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Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 7, 2013 Category: Science Tags: The Guardian Depression Pharmaceuticals industry Health Medical research & wellbeing Society Extracts Features Cancer Life and style Alternative medicine Science Source Type: news
Expectant Mothers' Colds May Affect Baby
Exposures in womb might raise risk of asthma, allergies in childhood, study suggests
Source: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Asthma in Children, Common Cold, Health Problems in Pregnancy
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - February 4, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Intramolecular interactions contributing for the conformational preference of bioactive diphenhydramine: Manifestation of the gauche effect
Publication date: 5 August 2015 Source:Journal of Molecular Structure, Volume 1093 Author(s): Fátima M.P. de Rezende , Laize A.F. Andrade , Matheus P. Freitas Diphenhydramine is an antihistamine used to treat some symptoms of allergies and the common cold. It is usually marketed as the hydrochloride salt, and both the neutral and cation forms have the O–C–C–N fragment. The gauche effect is well known in fluorine-containing chains, because its main origin is hyperconjugative and the σ∗ C–F is a low-lying acceptor orbital, allowing electron delocalization in the conformation where F and an adjacent electronegat...
Source: Journal of Molecular Structure - April 22, 2015 Category: Molecular Biology Source Type: research
Pro-toxic dehydropyrrolizidine alkaloids in the traditional Andean herbal medicine “asmachilca”
Conclusions All asmachilca samples and the herbal tea infusions contained toxicologically-relevant concentrations of pro-toxic 1,2-dehydropyrrolizidine alkaloid esters and, therefore, present a risk to the health of humans. This raises questions concerning the ongoing unrestricted availability of such products on the Peruvian and international market. In addition to medical surveys of consumers of asmachilca, in the context of chronic disease potentially associated with ingestion of the dehydropyrrolizidine alkaloids, the botanical origins of asmachilca preparations require detailed elucidation. Graphical abstract
Source: Journal of Ethnopharmacology - July 11, 2015 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Self-care behavior when suffering from the common cold and health-related quality of life in individuals attending an annual checkup in Japan: a cross-sectional study
Background:
The World Health Organization and several governments encourage medical self-care (including self-medication) for minor illnesses. Accordingly, the factors that influence self-care have received research attention, with socioeconomic status identified as one such predictor. Although studies have examined the relationship between socioeconomic status and quality of life (QOL) in patients suffering from respiratory allergies or chronic illnesses, the relationship between QOL and self-care behavior for the common cold, the most common illness seen in primary care, has not been examined. Therefore, we investigated ...
Source: BMC Family Practice - July 29, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Fumio ShakuMadoka TsutsumiAsako MiyazawaHiroshi TakagiTetsuhiro Maeno Source Type: research
Doctors Give New Advice For Treating Morning Sickness
BOSTON (CBS) – Morning sickness can make life unbearable for some expectant mothers, but now there is new expert advice so women don’t have to suffer as much.
Gaby Barajas has been miserable with morning sickness during her pregnancy. At times, she couldn’t keep food or drink down. “It was to that point that I was so desperate just to feel better already,” says Gaby.
Her doctor suggested the 32-year old try a treatment that combines vitamin B6 and the antihistamine, doxylamine. Now the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) is recommending the combination as a first-line treatm...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - September 30, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: rachelrmcknight Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Dr. Mallika Marshall Morning Sickness Pregnancy Source Type: news
Over-the-counter drug may reverse chronic vision damage caused by multiple sclerosis
A common antihistamine used to treat symptoms of allergies and the common cold, called clemastine fumarate, partially reversed damage to the visual system in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) in a preliminary study.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - April 13, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Zinc acetate lozenges for treating the common cold: an individual patient data meta‐analysis
ConclusionSince the effects of zinc acetate lozenges were consistent between the compared subgroups, the overall estimates for effect seem applicable over a wide range of common cold patients. While the optimal composition of zinc lozenges and the best frequency of their administration should be further investigated, given the current evidence of efficacy, common cold patients may be encouraged to try zinc lozenges for treating their colds.
Source: British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology - June 30, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Harri Hemilä, Edward J. Petrus, James T. Fitzgerald, Ananda Prasad Tags: Meta ‐Analysis Source Type: research
Zinc acetate lozenges for treating the common cold: an individual patient data meta ‐analysis
ConclusionSince the effects of zinc acetate lozenges were consistent between the compared subgroups, the overall estimates for effect seem applicable over a wide range of common cold patients. While the optimal composition of zinc lozenges and the best frequency of their administration should be further investigated, given the current evidence of efficacy, common cold patients may be encouraged to try zinc lozenges for treating their colds.
Source: British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology - July 4, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Harri Hemil ä, Edward J. Petrus, James T. Fitzgerald, Ananda Prasad Tags: Meta ‐Analysis Source Type: research
Turmeric: Nature ’s Miracle Root for Disease
My friends Lelir and Westi in Bali don’t like to go to doctors. Nature is their pharmacy.
You see, Lelir is a Balian. That means “herbal healer.”
And Westi’s plantation is bursting with healing plants.
But one plant stands out above all the others. Lelir uses it to make a daily immune-boosting elixir as well as an anti-aging facial scrub. Balians use it as an antibiotic and for liver support. They boil it with milk and sugar to treat the common cold and allergies. Rural doctors make it into a paste with lime to ease sore joints. They make drinks to treat fevers and stomach pain. They mix it wi...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - September 20, 2016 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Al Sears Tags: Natural Cures Source Type: news
Why You Should Avoid Antibacterial Soap
Maida P. Galvez, MD
Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine and Public Health
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Director of the Region 2 Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Why You Should Avoid Antibacterial Soap
"Wash your hands!" It's every child's marching orders, and for good reason. Hand-washing is the single most effective way to prevent getting sick and combat the spread of germs. It reduces infections like the common cold that are passed from person to person.
We are told to wash with soap and water to prevent the transmission of bacteria, so an antibac...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 9, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
