Sentences with phrase «treat lung infections»

Over time, bacteria in the lungs can become resistant to antibiotics making it increasingly difficult to treat lung infections and leading to irreversible damage to the lungs.

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One flavonoid in lemongrass called luteolin has such strong anti-inflammatory abilities that it may be able to treat some symptoms of multiple sclerosis, as well as lung infections or acute lung injury.

This includes essential care during childbirth and in the postnatal period for every mother and baby, including antenatal steroid injections (given to pregnant women at risk of preterm labour to strengthen the babies» lungs), kangaroo mother care (when the baby is carried by the mother with skin - to - skin contact and frequent breastfeeding), and antibiotics to treat newborn infections.

Defining the protective mechanisms normally preventing lung infections in most young healthy adults will lead to tests identifying who is susceptible and new approaches for preventing and treating the infections,» added Mizgerd.

The findings help explain why lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients are so hard to treat.

The researchers» report appears in the journal ACS Synthetic Biology and describes development of this new type of E. coli that can even kill off slimy groups of bacteria called biofilms that are responsible for many hard - to - treat infections, such as those that take hold in the lungs, the bladder and on implanted medical devices.

(Both forms are caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis; pneumonic plague develops when a person with bubonic plague is not treated, and the infection spreads to the lungs.)

After nestling inside the human lung, they can cause a severe infection that, if not treated with antibiotics, kills 90 % of those it infects.

Lung infections land him for weeks at a stretch here at Sasan Hospital, Iran's premier facility for chemical weapons victims, which treats as many as 150 such patients on any given day.

Mice infected with a resistant strain of tuberculosis that were treated with both SMARt - 420 and ethionamide also showed a significantly reduced bacterial load in their lungs three weeks after infection compared to controls, the authors report.

A new class of drugs has shown promise for treating the bacteria that cause legionnaires» disease, a potentially fatal lung infection.

«We were really excited to discover that BH3 - mimetics can be used to treat serious Legionella lung infections, killing the infected cells and allowing the bacteria to be cleared from the body,» Dr Vince said.

Klebsiella pneumoniae causes severe lung and bloodstream infections that are difficult to treat due to multidrug resistance.

Lactobacillus Acidophilus is one of the most commonly used probiotic bacteria, due to its studied effects on reducing lung infection and treating of vaginal infections, such as Candida.

Because antibiotic - resistant bacteria like MRSA can be so difficult to treat, it can easily progress from a superficial skin infection to a life - threatening infection in your bones, joints, bloodstream, heart valves, lungs, or surgical wounds.

It improves the efficiency of the functioning of lung tissues and helps in treating throat infections as well.

Cat flu is caused by airborne viruses and has to be treated to avoid secondary infections or transmissions that might take place in the nose, eyes, mouth and lungs.

Long - term, continuous use of heartworm preventives alone to treat heartworm infections, however, is not recommended as an alternative to melarsomine, because it is well documented that additional damage to the heart and lungs occurs the longer adult heartworms are present.

If he is showing symptoms of heartworm infection, then often it's a better idea to treat him with an anti-inflammatory drug to reduce the reaction in his lungs, and let the worms die of natural causes.

It is important to stabilize or treat any disorder present at the time of the physical examination, such as dehydration, infections, liver or kidney disorders, heart or lung disease or breathing difficulties prior to the administration of the anesthetic.

Baytril Taste Tabs, a prescription product, is an antibiotic used in dogs and cats to treat many types of infections cause by susceptible bacteria such as infections of the urinary tract, skin, prostate, GI tract, liver, and lungs.

If they are not treated with antibiotics, patients may suffer lung abscess, shock, infection that spreads through the blood, and eventual fatal respiratory failure.

Rivera actually had a form of sepsis — a blood infection that spreads from a patient's skin, bowels, lungs or kidneys and can prove fatal even if treated aggressively.