Chickenpox and steroid cards

Use of steroid cards by patients with respiratory disease.

Prolonged administration of corticosteroid preparations, other than by the inhaled route, is associated with suppression of the hypothalamicpituitary-adrenocortical axis. Sudden cessation of such treatment may lead to acute adrenal insufficiency that could have a fatal consequence, and for this reason a card is available for issue to patients receiving corticosteroid supplements. Drug type, dos...

Thrombocytopenic purpura and chickenpox.

Examination of the bone marrow in thrombocytopenic purpura shows two main patterns: the megakaryocytes are either deficient or else present in normal or even increased numbers. The former group results from depression of the marrow as by poisoning or mechanical displacement of the cells themselves by foreign tissue in leukaemia, infiltration with malignant cells, replacement with bone or fibrou...

Chickenpox and shingles infection

www.pjonline.com For personal use only. Not to be reproduced without permission of the editor ([email protected]) Coinuing prossional deelopm nt Identify knowledge gaps 1. What are the possible complications of chickenpox? 2. What should a pregnant woman with no history of chickenpox do if she comes into contact with the varicella zoster virus? 3. What is postherpetic neuralgia and how ...

Chickenpox vaccination, not chickenpox, should be routine for Canadian children.

Chickenpox chorioretinitis.

Chickenpox infection in an adult was complicated by peripheral chorioretinitis and treated with oral acyclovir. Similarities of this case to the recently proposed mild type of acute retinal necrosis syndrome are discussed.