does bedding affect the airway and allergy?

Does affluence affect allergy preparedness?

Does infant feeding affect the risk of allergy?

For nearly 50 years the hypothesis has been debated that withholding cows' milk from babies reduces the risk of allergic disease. Numerous studies have been conducted of varying design, size, and quality, and with conflicting results. Evidence tends to favour the hypothesis, but the only firm conclusion that can be drawn is that random controlled trials with blind assessment are needed to settl...

Does the reduction of inferior turbinate affect lower airway functions?

INTRODUCTION Although the nose and lungs are separate organs, numerous studies have reported that the entire respiratory system can be considered as a single anatomical and functional unit. The upper and lower airways affect each other either directly or through reflex mechanisms. OBJECTIVE In this study, we aimed to evaluate the effects of the radiofrequency ablation of persistent inferior t...

Bedding types affect pubertal progression in rat

Method Twenty female Sprague Dawley rat (SD rat) were randomly divided into two groups according to their bedding types. The 1 group was raised in wood shaving bedding as a control and 2 one was in corncob bedding as an endocrine disrupting agent. Each group was checked daily for the first day of vaginal opening, and their vaginal smears were collected to determine estrous cyclicity after vagin...

[Rhinovirus and airway allergy].

Rhinoviruses cause the majority of common colds, which often provoke wheezing in patients with asthma. The precise mechanisms responsible for the rhinovirus infection-induced exacerbations of bronchial asthma remain uncertain. However, several reports have demonstrated airway hyperresponsiveness, increases in chemical mediators in airway secretions, such as kinin and histamine, and airway infla...

Does fluid restriction affect the image quality of skeletal scintigraphy?

Introduction: In Islamic countries in the month of Holy Ramadan many Muslims based on their religious Legislation refuse fluid intake during the fasting time though instructed to drink after injection of Tc-99m Methylene-diphosphonates [Tc-99m MDP] used for skeletal scintigraphy. We aimed to establish whether fluid restriction in Tc-99m MDP skeletal scintigraphy has an impact on its quality. M...