INTRODUCTION A study has been made on the incidence and clinical characteristics of asthma exacerbations (AE) seen in hospital emergency departments (HED) and domiciliary services (DS) in Barcelona. PATIENTS AND METHODS AEs were identified over a 56 day period during the months of October and November 2003 and the patients seen in university hospitals were interviewed. RESULTS A total of 26...

Microbiological studies were carried out in a small poultry farm in a Community in South West Nigeria following a report of acute diarrhea in 6-week old broilers, catarrh and cough in the poultry attendants. Nasal swabs were collected from 25 symptomatic and 5 asymptomatic attendants. Swabs were collected from the cloacae of 100 birds with diarrhea. Twenty-five (100%) symptomatic attendants car...

By the 1880s hay fever (also called June Cold, Rose Cold, hay asthma, hay cold, or autumnal catarrh) had become the pride of America's leisure class. In mid-August each year, thousands of sufferers fled to the White Mountains of New Hampshire, to the Adirondacks in upper New York State, to the shores of the Great Lakes, or to the Colorado plateau, hoping to escape the dreaded seasonal symptoms ...

Rhizomes of Zingiber officinale Roscoe. belonging to the family Zingiberaceae is used for bronchitis, as a carminative, treating cough, cataracts and stimulant. The rhizome cooked with salt water an expectorant. Extract juice eye-drops. In Yemen, it mixed other plants constipation, purgative, against colds, catarrh acidity stomach. Root ginger widely culinary purposes spice. rhizomes (imported ...