PRACTICAL ORAL THERAPEUTICS.

PRACTICAL THERAPEUTICS Common Intestinal Parasites

Intestinal parasites cause significant morbidity and mortality. Diseases caused by Enterobius vermicularis, Giardia lamblia, Ar^cylostoma duodenale, Necator americanus, and Entamoeba histolytica occur in the United States. E. vermicularis, or pinworm, causes irritation and sleep disturbances. Diagnosis can be made using the "cellophane tape test." Treatment includes mebendazole and household sa...

PRACTICAL THERAPEUTICS Guillain-Barre Syndrome

Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is a group of autoimmune syndromes consisting of demyelinating and acute axonal degenerating forms of the disease. Nerve conduction study helps differentiate the heterogeneous subtypes of GBS. Patients exhibit a progressive paralysis that reaches a plateau phase. In most patients, resolution is complete or near complete. Mortality from GBS most often is associated ...

A Manual of Practical Therapeutics

Non-conventional therapeutics for oral infections

As our knowledge of host-microbial interactions within the oral cavity increases, future treatments are likely to be more targeted. For example, efforts to target a single species or key virulence factors that they produce, while maintaining the natural balance of the resident oral microbiota that acts to modulate the host immune response would be an advantage. Targeted approaches may be direct...

Oral food challenges: practical aspects

Aims of controlled oral food challenges are both to prove that a certain allergen plays a role for the individual clinical symptoms and to exclude food allergy in order to prevent the child from unnecessary or even harmful elimination diets. There are such types of challenges in the clinical practice: open, single-blind, or double-blind, placebo-controlled. Open OFC is an unmasked, unblinded fe...