Herbs and Other Dietary Supplements

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelo Mathes ◽  
Renee Bellanger
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Dietary Supplements ◽  
Expert Opinion ◽  
Common Cold ◽  
The United States ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Respiratory Illnesses ◽  
Herbal Preparations ◽  
Primary Literature ◽  
The Common

Herbal preparations are sold as dietary supplements in the United States and are subject to the rules and regulations of various health care and economic government agencies that monitor the sale of these products. One approach to assessing the usefulness of these substances is to focus on one particular disease state and then review both the primary literature and expert opinion. The common cold is an important illness due to its recurring nature, the number of people it afflicts, and its economic impact on patients. Dietary supplements have been shown to decrease the duration, the severity, and the frequency of symptoms of the common cold. The most commonly available supplements are zinc, ginseng, echinacea, and vitamin C. Data from expert opinion suggested that certain supplements are more beneficial than others to maintain one’s health during episodes of the common cold. Expert opinion regarding the use of dietary supplements in other related infectious respiratory illnesses, such as the flu, when aggregated with expert opinion findings regarding the common cold were not contradictory. The primary literature provided insights into specific dosages and compounds that may be used in practice.

Cold, Cough, and Allergy Medications: Uses and Abuses

1996 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-17
Author(s):  
Murray L. Katcher
Keyword(s):  
Otitis Media ◽  
Common Cold ◽  
Symptomatic Relief ◽  
Respiratory Illness ◽  
The United States ◽  
Upper Respiratory Infection ◽  
Common Diagnosis ◽  
Associated Symptoms ◽  
The Common ◽  
Upper Respiratory

Separately or in combination, antihistamines, decongestants, antitussives, and expectorants are used to treat the cough and rhinitis symptoms of the common cold and of allergies. Each year, Americans spend 1 to 2 billion dollars on cough and cold remedies and lose more than 26 million school days and 23 million work days because of rhinitis and associated symptoms. Studies have shown that antihistamines and decongestants are efficacious in the treatment of allergy symptoms, but the results of studies are mixed regarding their efficacy in the treatment of symptoms of the common cold, and studies show no effect in prevention or treatment of otitis media. Some review articles and consensus opinions do not recommend the use of these drugs in the common cold (especially in preschool children), although some studies have demonstrated symptomatic relief, and physicians continue to prescribe or recommend these drugs for respiratory illness more than 36 million times annually. The Common Cold More than 200 million cases of acute upper respiratory infection (URI) occur each year in the United States, and more than 75 million are seen by physicians. URIs account for 23 million missed work days and 26 million missed school days. This is the second most common diagnosis made by office-based pediatricians, second only to otitis media.

Ethanol in Over-the-Counter Drugs

1996 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 342-343
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Health ◽  
Common Cold ◽  
National Health Interview Survey ◽  
The United States ◽  
Over The Counter ◽  
Health Interview Survey ◽  
Health Interview ◽  
Interview Survey ◽  
The Common

The use of over-the-counter (OTC) medications among children in the United States is extensive. More than 800 OTC medications are available for treatment of the common cold, with almost 2 billion dollars spent annually on cough and cold medications alone. In 1994, Kogan et al determined that more than 50% of 3-year-old children in the United States had been given OTC medications in the 30 days prior to the study survey. Cough and cold preparations and acetaminophen were reported to be the medications used most frequently (66.7%). The use of cough and cold medications has not decreased when compared with findings from a 1981 National Health Interview Survey, despite increasing evidence that these medications are not effective and, in some circumstances, even may be harmful to children.

scholarly journals Health Care Today: Whom Do We Really Care About

2020 ◽  
pp. 002436392095166
Author(s):  
Brother Ignatius Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Human Person ◽  
The United States ◽  
American People ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Continuum

Health services in the United States, driven by moral relativism, technology, financial algorithms, present draconian threats to the ability of these services to respond to the health care needs of the American people. Critical moral issues must be addressed, resolved, and serve as the foundation for a renewed health care system that fulfills the call for the common good and provides services in response to the question “who do we really care about.” Millions of our brothers and sisters continue to join the ranks of the uninsured and unemployed. What is urgently needed is a fair, equitable, accessible, affordable, and, most importantly, an ethical system of health care where the dignity and freedom of the human person, across the continuum of life from conception to natural death, is once again recognized as the summit of the work before us.

Gambaran Farmakoterapi Pasien Common Cold Di Puskesmas Pekanbaru

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Dimas Pramita Nugraha ◽  
Inayah Inayah
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Medication Error ◽  
Health Center ◽  
Medication Errors ◽  
Common Cold ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Primary Health Center ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
The Common

Common cold is still a disease with the most number of cases in Indonesia and the province of Riau in out patientswho visited the primary health center (Puskesmas). However, in primary health care, like Puskesmas and privatepractice physicians are expected pharmacotherapy common cold is not rational. Medication errors is a common problem.The purpose of this study was to determine how the use of pharmacotherapy in patients with the common cold inPuskesmas Pekanbaru. This study was an observational descriptive , with a total sample 4602 people who meet thespecified criteria .The results showed that the percentage patients common cold using symptomatic analgesic-antipyreticdrugs 70.2%.However, the percentage of patients that using antibiotics in common cold is still quite a lot (36%), alsothe use corticosteroid (17,9%) that showed medication error. The patterns pharmacotherapy of common cold inPuskesmas Pekanbaru was relatively good, but need improvement .

Exploring Food Safety Messages in an Era of COVID-19: Analysis of YouTube Video Content

2021 ◽  
Vol 84 (6) ◽  
pp. 1000-1008
Author(s):  
MERLYN THOMAS ◽  
PEYTON HAYNES ◽  
JUAN C. ARCHILA-GODÍNEZ ◽  
MAI NGUYEN ◽  
WENQING XU ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Health Care Professional ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Food System ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
The United States ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
Government Agencies

ABSTRACT Although severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is not a proven foodborne pathogen, the COVID-19 pandemic has put the food system on alert, and food safety has been identified as an important pillar in mitigating the crisis. Therefore, an understanding of how popular media are used as a vital disseminator of food safety and health information for the public is more important than ever. YouTube deserves particular attention as one of the most highly trafficked Web sites on the Internet, especially because YouTube has been blamed during the pandemic for spreading misleading or untrustworthy information that contradicts validated information. This study was conducted to evaluate the food safety information and practices circulating on YouTube during the COVID-19 pandemic and the alignment of these practices with recommendations from government agencies. A search for videos on YouTube was conducted using the key words “food and COVID-19,” “food safety and COVID-19,” and “groceries and COVID-19.” After applying a series of inclusive and exclusive criteria, 85 videos from the United States and Canada were evaluated. More than half (69%) of the videos presented hand washing procedures, 26% showed kitchen disinfection, and most (86%) showed take-out food or grocery store practices. Multiple produce washing procedures were also shown throughout videos. Food was not considered hazardous in 39% of the videos, but 24% mentioned that food packaging is potentially hazardous. Most videos cited government agencies and had a host or guest who was a health care professional, professor, or expert. Three videos were not aligned with a government agency's guideline or information cited; two were presented by a health care professional. These findings reveal the need to develop educational interventions that increase YouTube video host and guest awareness of social media use as a tool for food safety dissemination and the need to provide trustworthy information. HIGHLIGHTS

scholarly journals In Vitro Activity of Expanded-Spectrum Pyridazinyl Oxime Ethers Related to Pirodavir: Novel Capsid-Binding Inhibitors with Potent Antipicornavirus Activity

2004 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 1766-1772 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. L. Barnard ◽  
V. D. Hubbard ◽  
D. F. Smee ◽  
R. W. Sidwell ◽  
K. G. W. Watson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Common Cold ◽  
The United States ◽  
Neutral Red ◽  
In Vitro Activity ◽  
Oral Agent ◽  
Uptake Assay ◽  
The Common ◽  
Orally Bioavailable ◽  
Neutral Red Uptake Assay

ABSTRACT Picornaviruses (PV) include human rhinovirus (HRV), the primary cause of the common cold, and the enteroviruses (EV), which cause serious diseases such as poliomyelitis, meningoencephalitis, and systemic neonatal disease. Although no compounds for PV infections have been approved in the United States, pirodavir was one of the most promising capsid-binding compounds to show efficacy in human clinical trials for chemoprophylaxis of the common cold. Susceptibility to hydrolysis precluded its use as an oral agent. We have developed orally bioavailable pyridazinyl oxime ethers that are as potent as pirodavir. Compounds BTA39 and BTA188 inhibited a total of 56 HRV laboratory strains and three clinical isolates as determined by neutral red uptake assay. At concentrations of <100 nM, BTA39 inhibited 69% of the HRV serotypes and isolates evaluated, BTA188 inhibited 75%, and pirodavir inhibited 59% of the serotypes and isolates. The 50% inhibitory concentrations (IC50s) for the two compounds ranged from 0.5 nM to 6,701 nM. The compounds also inhibited EV, including coxsackie A and B viruses (IC50 = 773 to 3,608 nM) and echoviruses (IC50 = 193 to 5,155 nM). BTA39 only inhibited poliovirus strain WM-1 at 204 nM, and BTA188 only inhibited poliovirus strain Chat at 82 nM. EV 71 was inhibited by BTA39 and BTA188, with IC50s of 1 and 82 nM, respectively. Both compounds were relatively nontoxic in actively growing cells (50% cytotoxic doses, ≥4,588 nM). These data suggest that these oxime ethers warrant further investigation as potential agents for treating selected PV infections.

6. Epidemics and pandemics

2018 ◽  
pp. 63-74
Author(s):  
Dorothy H. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Common Cold ◽  
Susceptible Population ◽  
Respiratory Illnesses ◽  
Emerging Virus ◽  
The Common ◽  
Airborne Viruses

Once an acute emerging virus is successfully established in a population, it generally settles into a mode of cyclical epidemics during which many susceptible people are infected and become immune to further attack. When most are immune, the virus moves on, only returning when a new susceptible population has emerged, generally consisting of those born since the last epidemic. ‘Epidemics and pandemics’ considers historical epidemics of viruses, vaccination programmes, and the spread of viruses from one continent to another—pandemics. Airborne viruses mainly cause respiratory illnesses, like flu, the common cold, or pneumonia, while those transmitted by faecal–oral contamination, like rotaviruses and noroviruses, cause intestinal upsets with nausea, vomiting, and diarrhoea.

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