Cough

Patient Information: Katie, 65yrs, F, Caucasian, What insurance do you have? S. CC: Cough started a week ago and not getting better. HPI: Katie is a 65yrs old female came to the clinic along with her son in law, Patrick with c/o cough, which started a week ago and is not getting better. Cough is worse at night, and it wakes her up from her sleep. She also c/o pain on her right side of the chest muscles due to cough. She is feeling very tired and gets easily winded when she takes her daily…

000 deaths are reported worldwide”(Center for Biotechnology, Anna University). Pertussis is very contagious, the bacterial disease is also known as “whooping cough”. Whooping Cough is a upper respiratory infection caused by bacteria, Bordetella pertussis or Bordetella parapertussis. Whooping cough is transferred when an infected sneezes or coughs spread from person to person. This disease is most common in children and babies.…

Bordetella pertussis is a very contagious disease in the upper respiratory system. It is known to cause whopping cough, or pertussis, an acute respiratory infection marked by spasmodic cough episodes. It is caused by the bacterium, Bordetella pertussis, and attaches to the lining of the airways, humans are its only host. It is characterized by fits of coughing that are so severe that you can’t stop or catch your breath. Although people of all ages can become infected with this disease, it is…

Codeine is an opioid medicine, narcotic, and cough suppressant commonly used as a painkiller to treat mild to moderate pain. But codeine is also widely abused and used as a drug and this is why it should be placed on the banned list. Codeine is sometimes considered one of the more “safer” opioid drugs, but that leads people to believe that it's safer to use and leads to massive amounts of addiction to codeine. Codeine, when consumed, is metabolized in the body and becomes morphine, which is a…

Annually, about 195,000 deaths result from the estimated 16 million cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, worldwide. In the United States the numbers are significantly smaller due to the availability and development of the pertussis vaccine with an annual 10,000 to 40,000 reported cases and up to 20 deaths (Pertussis in Other Countries). Although a vaccine exists, there are still many cases of whooping cough and far more that go unreported. Precautions are being pushed onto infants all the way…

3 Ways You Could Be Damaging Your Kid’s Teeth Your kid’s baby teeth are only temporary, but that doesn’t mean you can ignore them when it comes to oral care. Starting out with good habits at a young age will help ensure that those habits continue well into when their adult teeth come in. Here are some things you can avoid doing to promote better oral health for your kid. Do Not Give Them A Bottle Right Before Bed You should not get into the habit of bottle feeding your kid before they go down…

Chickenpox is a contagious infection that is caused by the varicella-zoster virus. Everybody can be infected by the varicella-zoster virus but it effects younger children’s more. Chickenpox can last up to 15 days Symptoms: A itchy rash that causes blisters with fluid, and once the blister erupts it causes to develop a crust. Also fever, feeling tired, headache, and anorexia is common. Treatment: The body has to fight the virus on its own. For the symptoms special creams to prevent from itching,…

clinical and administrative duties under the direct supervision of a healthcare professional, often a physician. Prescribing medicine is not within Stephanie’s scope of practice. The care of the patient is essential. When patients are experiencing cough, they should inform their providers about every symptom and give significant details…

monitoring Migraines - on topiramate Thank you very much for referring Sandra along for her 18-month history or cough. As you are aware, she first noticed this on holidays in Queensland in July last year. She developed a dry cough at the time without any associated infective symptoms. That dry cough has persisted since that time. It is mainly throughout the day and is mild cough which is mainly throat clearing. She does not notice issues at night. She did trial Nexium for three months due…

Walking into Walgreens in order to find some kind of cough drop to treat my sore throat is the kind of things that I do not want to do while feeling sick. I stood there and looked at various of different packages that is placed on the shelves and hesitated with what kind of cough drops to buy. Then one package that popped up among other packages which was a yellow “HALLS” menthol cough drop bag. I read quickly over the descriptions and decided to take that bag and head over to the check out with…