introduction: foreign body ingestion is common among children and more common in boys and in children under the age of 3. it can present with a wide variety of symptoms like dysphagia and drooling or symptoms related to the upper aerodigestive tract.   case report: a 20-month-old male presented with refractory croup and poor feeding since 2 weeks. bronchoscopy and esophagoscopy was performed du...

For many years I have brought to the attention of the members of succeeding fourth-year dasses the subject of minor or common ailments. We senior practitioners know that in the training we received in medical school, patients suffering from major maladies were repeatedly demonstrated to us. But many minor ailments familiar to us by name or through personal experience failed to find their way in...

Aretaeus of Cappadocia composed a vivid description of diphtheria, noting the symptoms, complications, as well as the remedies to cure it. He was the medical author who used the terms "eschara" and "diphtheres" which are still in use by modern physicians, and the first who recognized the croup. His alum remedy has stood the test of time and is nowadays still under study.

Total respiratory resistance (RT) was measured before and after nebulised alpha-adrenergic stimulant therapy in 8 children aged 4 to 18 months who had the clinical symptoms of acute viral croup. In 7 children there was a mean fall in RT of 30% after treatment, associated with an improvement in their clinical condition. This improvement was shortlived, the resistance returning to pretreatment le...

Croup is an inflammatory condition of the larynx or trachea accompanied by stridor, which is the harsh noise characterizing upper airway obstruction, as opposed to wheezing which characterizes lower airway obstruction. The sound may be of high or low pitch and is due to sound waves set up by the fast flow of air past a narrow point in the airway. This causes stridor of medium or high pitch, chi...