The Treatment of Croup
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Treatment of acute viral croup.
Total respiratory resistance (RT) was measured before and after nebulised alpha-adrenergic stimulant therapy in 8 children aged 4 to 18 months who had the clinical symptoms of acute viral croup. In 7 children there was a mean fall in RT of 30% after treatment, associated with an improvement in their clinical condition. This improvement was shortlived, the resistance returning to pretreatment le...
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Sir: While writing my article for this journal titled ‘‘Zinc lozenges as cure for the common cold – a review and hypothesis” [1], I reflected upon the long 25-year history of zinc in treating colds, and also remembered that the history of use of zinc to treat croup in infants and young children was much longer. The first published use that I found for treating croup with zinc was in 1899; yes, ...
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Croup is an inflammatory condition of the larynx or trachea accompanied by stridor, which is the harsh noise characterizing upper airway obstruction, as opposed to wheezing which characterizes lower airway obstruction. The sound may be of high or low pitch and is due to sound waves set up by the fast flow of air past a narrow point in the airway. This causes stridor of medium or high pitch, chi...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
سال: 1851
ISSN: 0096-6762,1533-4406
DOI: 10.1056/nejm185112030451806