Postinfectious cough and pertussis in primary care

Postinfectious fatigue: prospective cohort study in primary care.

The idea that chronic fatigue has an infectious origin has become popular, but the main evidence for such an association has come from retrospective case-control studies, which are subject to ascertainment bias. We report a prospective study of the outcome of clinically diagnosed infections in patients presenting to UK general practitioners. Questionnaires assessing fatigue and psychiatric morb...

Cough, primary care and other matters.

The w ide and ever-increasing prevalence of asthma makes the care of patients by specialists (allergists, pneumologists) difficult. In addition, because of the apparent simplification of treatments based on inhaled corticosteroids and beta2-agonists, many patients are managed by non-specialists. A third, additional factor is the recent idea that prolonged or recurrent cough is a manifestation o...

Prevalence, diagnosis, and disease course of pertussis in adults with acute cough: a prospective, observational study in primary care

BACKGROUND Most cases of adult pertussis probably remain undiagnosed. AIM To explore the prevalence, diagnosis, and disease course of acute pertussis infection in adult patients presenting with acute cough. DESIGN AND SETTING Prospective observational study between 2007 and 2010 in primary care in 12 European countries. METHOD Adults presenting with acute cough (duration of ≤28 days) were...

What is pertussis (whooping cough)?

Honey with Coffee: A new finding in the treatment of Persistent Postinfectious Cough

Introduction: Persistent postinfectious cough (PPC) is a cough that persists longer than 3 weeks or perhaps for many months after a common cold or an upper respiratory tract infection (URTI). PPC has poor response to routine treatment modalities, so it can be a vexing problem for the patient and the physician alike. Our hypothesis was that honey and/or coffee have some beneficial effects in th...