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cough treatment in pregnancy :: Article Creator What Should I Know Regarding Pregnancy, Nursing And Administering Cough Suppressant-Expectorant Oral To Children Or The Elderly? Take this medication by mouth with or without food, as directed by your doctor. If you are self-treating, follow all directions on the product package. If you have any questions, ask your doctor or pharmacist. Drink plenty of fluids while taking this medication. Fluids will help to break up mucus and clear congestion. Dosage is based on your age, medical condition, and response to treatment. Do not increase your dose or take this drug more often than directed. If you are using the liquid form of this medication, carefully measure the dose using a special measuring device/spoon. Do not use a household spoon because you may not get the correct dose. For powder packets, empty the entire contents of the packet onto the tongue and swallow. To prevent a bitter taste, do not...

recommended travel vaccines :: Article Creator Healthbeat: International Travel Vaccines Jetting off to a new destination can be a fun and exciting experience, but international travel increases your chances of getting and spreading diseases that are rare or not found in the United States. Find out which travel vaccines you may need to help you stay healthy on your trip by calling Chaffee County Public Health and making an appointment with a public health nurse.    Before travel First, it's important to make sure you are up to date on all of your routine vaccinations. Visitwwwnc.Cdc.Gov/travel/page/routine-vaccines for more information, or call Public Health to discuss with a nurse. Many diseases prevented by routine vaccination are not common in the United States but are still common in other countries. In addition, a flu and COVID vaccination are important and may be the most likely diseases that you encounter. Beyond routine vacci...

the spanish flu of 1918 :: Article Creator Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic Of 1918 And The Search For The Virus That Caused It Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 256 pages, $25.00, 1999 0374157065ISBN: 0-374-15706-5 There is a cemetery in a small railroad town in northern Ohio where I grew up that tells a sliver of the story of the great 'Spanish' influenza pandemic of 1918. One section of the cemetery is full of simple, rough, limestone markers that tilt willy-nilly in the perpetually damp sod of the graveyard. These unembellished memorials mark the graves of unfortunate souls who died one week during the fall of 1918 from the flu. In other towns all over the country there are similar hastily prepared grave sites. At least 10,000 people died in the city of Philadelphia during one three-week period during the month of October, overwhelming doctors, hospitals and undertakers. The pandemic occurred just at the moment i...

single shot vaccine :: Article Creator Q&A: The Case Of The Missing Lyme Vaccine High summer is here, but many heading to forests and fields reach not for shorts and a T-shirt, but long sleeves, pants, and a shot of bug spray, hoping to keep a threat at bay: the deer ticks that carry Lyme disease. Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease-causing bacterium transmitted by tick bites, has been found in increasing numbers around the country, particularly in the Northeast. Early symptoms may include an expanding skin lesion at the site of the bite, often accompanied by fever, headache, and fatigue. Left untreated, it may attack the joints, heart, and nervous system with potentially long-lasting impacts, including arthritis, heart palpitations, dizziness, or shooting pains. Though the threat has grown and become more well-known, there are currently no vaccines for humans, although there are three for dogs. One had been developed in the late 19...

tuberculosis is an example of a communicable disease :: Article Creator TB Preventive Treatment: The Need For Choice Africa, Headlines, Health, Poverty & SDGs, TerraViva United Nations Opinion The progress made in HIV prevention is nothing short of a global success story. It is time that TB caught up to HIV. Medicine is simply too advanced for us to tolerate how one disease can be beaten back yet another continues to flourish. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/IPS. JOHANNESBURG, Jul 26 2023 (IPS) - Before COVID-19 came along, the two most lethal infectious diseases were HIV and tuberculosis (TB). Even though HIV still lingers, with 1.5 million people contracting the infection every year, epidemiologists point to the availability of many HIV prevention options as a primary reason for the decreasing caseload. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over the past two decades, new HIV infections decreased by 49%, HIV-related deaths decreased ...