Sentences with phrase «upper airway infections»

Dogs with collapsing trachea may have other concurrent diseases including heart disease and laryngeal paralysis, and they may be at a greater risk of acquiring upper airway infections.

Giving one strains of lactobacillus to infants and children seems to reduce the chance of upper airway infections by about 38 %.

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A cold is a viral infection of the sinuses, throat, nose, and upper airways.

Immunologist Dr Dan Neill, who is the other first author added: «This finding may explain why patients often suffer from recurrent infections with the same bacterial strain as continual re-infection of the lungs from the upper airways can take place.»

They hypothesize that this system may control microbial overgrowth in the airway to maintain a colonized state within the upper airway without infection.

Researchers also found more killer T cells — which help patients fight the infection — in the upper airways of flu patients with the protective variant compared to other patients.

In immunocompromised individuals (chemotherapy patients, for example) or poorly controlled diabetics, upper airway Aspergillus infections can invade the mucosa and underlying tissue and become lethal, so it is particularly critical to understand its interactions with the airway epithelium.

The upper and lower airways often develop atrophy of the mucosa and impaired immune defences, resulting in more infections and cancers.

The understanding of how infections are naturally prevented by our upper and lower airways is extremely important.

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.

For example, if your dog licks his or her bottom frequently and swallows bacteria and anal sac material, it can develop infections in the tonsils, the stomach, and the upper airway (trachea).