Sentences with phrase «as upper respiratory»

Acute illness, such as an upper respiratory infection or gastrointestinal irritability, is often exacerbated or triggered by stress.

Routine medical conditions, such as an upper respiratory infection, can cost thousands of dollars to be diagnosed and treated on a cruise ship.

FIV - positive cats have a weaker immune system, so they are more prone to getting infections, such as upper respiratory infections, ringworm and dental disease.

It most often presents as upper respiratory symptoms in rabbits including sneezing and nasal discharge.

Distemper may be misdiagnosed in its early stages because it begins as an upper respiratory infection resembling a cold., including fever of 103 - 105 degrees (normal for a dog is 100 - 102.5), loss of appetite, listlessness, and a watery discharge from eyes and nose.

Also, a shelter environment can expose pets to common infectious diseases such as upper respiratory infections.

Additional health concerns such as upper respiratory infections and fleas, may cause your kitten to lose weight, as her body fights off infection, or suffers the depletion caused by a flea infestation.

Dogs undergoing heartworm treatment will need to be isolated from other dogs to prevent secondary infections such as upper respiratory infections (Kennel Cough) as their immune systems are under compromise from the parasite and treatment.

In general, cats with FeLV have weaker immune systems so they are more prone to infections, such as upper respiratory infections, dental disease and mycoplasma hemofelis.

The veterinarian will also want to rule other other causes of breathing difficulties such as an upper respiratory infection or allergy that can cause a dog's airways to swell.

In young kittens, pneumonia may result from what started as an upper respiratory infection.

Respiratory disease can range from something as mild as an upper respiratory infection to life threatening fluid accumulation in the lungs of a dog or cat.

FIV positive cats are more prone to getting infections such as upper respiratory, skin, and bladder infections, along with dental disease.

The symptoms are for the most part non-specific and easily confused with other self - limited acute illnesses such as upper respiratory viral infections, or with chronic problems, such as sinusitis, rhinitis, and bronchitis.

Patients taking antibiotics for an unrelated problem (such as upper respiratory infection or urinary tract infection), will often report that their symptoms are much better while taking the antibiotic, and worsen when the antibiotic is stopped.

Respiratory illness and infection were grouped as upper respiratory tract infection (unspecified upper respiratory tract infections, tonsillitis, otitis media, otitis media with effusion), wheezing lower respiratory tract illness (wheezing associated respiratory illness, bronchiolitis, bronchospasm, or asthma), and non-wheezing lower respiratory tract infection or illness (chest infection, any pneumonia, whooping cough, chronic cough, or croup).

There are many other illnesses such as an upper respiratory infection with a cough or acid reflux also with a cough that can cause similar symptoms.

Not exact matches

The other is Scanaflu, an upper respiratory infection tool that uses the smartphone as a reader to determine if you have Strep A, Influenza A, Influenza B, adenovirus, or RSV — a common, cold - like virus.

I seem to have upper respiratory issues such as coughing and choking when I eat wheat and refined sugars but I never hear anyone else talk about those symptoms.

The Bulls shot 52.4 percent overall from the floor and were 18 - for - 34 on 3s - matching their season high - as Hoiberg missed the game with an upper - respiratory infection.

«A baby with a cleft lip or palate, for example, is often more prone to developing upper respiratory problems, such as colds, allergies, and ear infections,» says Aimee Creelman, a breastfeeding consultant at St. Luke's Hospital in San Francisco.

Viral gastroenteritis is the second most common illness in the United States (after upper respiratory infections such as colds).

These symptoms are common in children with upper respiratory tract infections, such as a cold.

Our observations of reduced fever at 1 month and reduced stuffy nose at 6 months associated with nonprone sleep positions are consistent with this hypothesis, as is the reported observation that adults with upper respiratory tract infections have lower nasal bacterial counts after lying supine for 1 hour vs lying prone for 1 hour.11 Also, infants sleeping supine swallow more frequently than infants sleeping prone in response to a pharyngeal fluid stimulus, suggesting more effective clearing of nasopharyngeal secretions in the supine position and, hence, less potential for eustachian tube obstruction and fewer ear infections.12

Newborns who are breastfed have fewer ear and upper respiratory infections and are less likely to be obese as they grow older.

There are many potential benefits to adding probiotics to our kids» diets such as decreasing the severity and duration of diarrhea cause by gastroenteritis, preventing antibiotic - induced diarrhea, easing colic in babies, and boosting immunity, especially with upper respiratory tract infections.

comes from treating conditions that are thought to be acute otitis media but are actually some other illness, such as a viral upper respiratory tract infection.

«A baby with a cleft lip or palate, for example, is often more prone to developing upper respiratory problems such as colds, allergies, and ear infections,» says Aimee Creelman, a lactation consultant and obstetric nurse at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital in Southern Vermont.

Studies show that breastfed children don't get sick as often as formula - fed children — and that means fewer upper respiratory, middle ear, and gastrointestinal infections.

Overall, the introduction of formula milk as well as any breast feeding for less than six months were found to be significant risk factors for hospital, doctor, or clinic visits and hospital admissions specifically for upper respiratory tract infections and wheezing lower respiratory tract illness.

In adjusted analysis a shorter duration of predominant breast feeding (less than two months) was a risk factor for four or more hospital, doctor, or clinic visits because of upper respiratory tract infections (OR 1.43, 95 % 1.02 to 2.01, p = 0.041), as was partial breast feeding for less than six months (OR 1.46, 95 % CI 1.07 to 2.00, p = 0.018).

«Mucus becomes more viscous as cold air hits our upper respiratory tracts,» he says.

There has been a growing interest in the potential role of vitamin D in asthma management because it might help to reduce upper respiratory infections, (such as the common cold) that can lead to exacerbations of asthma.

About 15 percent of patients with an upper respiratory tract infection — the type of infection we typically think of as a «common cold» — went on to develop pneumonia, or an infection of the lower respiratory tract.

In the NHANES III cohort, 296 COPD patients had an allergic phenotype, which was defined as self - reported doctor - diagnosed hay fever or allergic upper respiratory symptoms.

Dr Mark Ashworth, GP and author of the study from the King's Division of Health and Social Care Research, said: «As a practicing GP, I see very few complications from patients who have upper respiratory tract infections and who decide to opt for a non-antibiotic approach to treating their infections.

Asthma deaths arise primarily during episodes of acute worsening of symptoms, known as attacks or «exacerbations», which are commonly triggered by viral upper respiratory infections.

According to Wilson, monoclonal antibodies from (deliberately infected) animals were routinely used in the first half of the 20th century to try to treat diphtheria (an upper - respiratory illness that killed roughly 15,000 people annually in the early 1920s until a vaccine was formulated against it in 1924) and tetanus (a potentially fatal infection also known as lockjaw, because one of the muscles it destroys is in the jaw).

Cats that have contracted the virus in the shelter have displayed upper respiratory symptoms such as runny nose, congestion and general malaise, as well as lip smacking and excessive salivation.

The researcher endorsed a history of recurrent upper respiratory infections, and did not regard the illness as related to the titi monkey outbreak.

An international study of 154,492 European children found that those who had had upper respiratory infections, such as colds, sinusitis, laryngitis, tonsillitis, pharyngitis and otitis, by the age of five years had a 1.5-fold increased risk of developing asthma in later life.

The Division of Pulmonary Medicine deals with the breath of life in all its aspects: control of breathing; sleep disorders; obstruction to airflow in the common diseases of upper and lower airways such as croup, bronchiolitis, asthma, cystic fibrosis, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia; restriction to lung function from disorders affecting the chest wall, the musculature, the nervous system, or lung tissue itself; congenital anomalies; accidents such as inhalation of foreign bodies, hydrocarbons, or toxic gases; secondary effects of non-pulmonary system disorders such as gastrointestinal reflux, myopathy, or cardiac dysfunction; disease of the upper respiratory tract including rhinitis and sinusitis; and so on.

Cats infected with influenza were observed to have non-specific signs of upper respiratory infection such as lethargy, nasal congestion and discharge.

Prolonged exposure to silica dust can pose severe health risks to both animals and humans causing irritation and in some cases, permanent damage of the mucous membranes of the lungs and upper respiratory tract as well as leading to silicosis and lung cancer.

Endurance athletes are more susceptible to upper - respiratory tract infections due to their heavy training loads, and this is a problem for them as infections can mean competition under - performing or missing out on training sessions.

Despite the potential for serious complications inherent to biologics, the side effects of Stelara generally include little more than upper respiratory tract infections (such as the common cold), fatigue, and minor body aches.

A 2nd analysis of individuals with symptoms limited to the upper respiratory tract, such as pharyngitis, the common cold, sinusitis and rhinitis revealed less of a risk.

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Consumption of commercial milk has been linked to many health conditions, such as allergies, asthma, atherosclerosis, diabetes, chronic infections (especially upper respiratory and ear infections), obesity, osteoporosis and prostate, ovarian, breast and colon cancer.

Research shows honey works as well as dextromethorphan, a common ingredient in over the counter cough medications, to soothe cough and related sleeping difficulties due to upper respiratory tract infections in children.6