Introduction Exposure to music is the subject of many studies because it is related to an individual's professional and social activities. Objectives Evaluate the vestibular behavior in military band musicians. Methods A retrospective cross-sectional study was performed. Nineteen musicians with ages ranging from 21 to 46 years were evaluated (average = 33.7 years and standard deviation = 7.2 ye...

History: A student nurse, aged 20, was admitted to the New Haven Hospital on October I3, I929, with a complaint of "earache". There was no history of exposure to Type I pneumococcus infection. One week before admission she developed a dry, nonproductive cough with an uncomfortable restricted feeling about the chest. There was no sore throat nor history of muscular or joint pains. On the morning...

BACKGROUND The Dental Discomfort Questionnaire (DDQ) is an observational instrument intended to measure dental discomfort and/or pain in children under 5 years of age. This study aimed to validate a previously cross-culturally adapted version of DDQ in a Brazilian children sample. METHODS Participants included 263 children (58.6% boys, mean age 43.5 months) that underwent a dental examination...

OBJECTIVES To describe the association between active, environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure and the prevalence of eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD) in the U.S. pediatric population. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING U.S. representative demographic and audiometric data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES);2005-2010. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The study con...

Aim. Children with developmental disabilities generally experience more pain than the normal children. Description of pain is generally difficult in children and more so in children with intellectual disabilities. The study aimed at evaluating dental pain in children with intellectual disabilities. Methods. The survey was carried out in an institution caring for intellectually disabled children...

Over-the-counter cyclooxygenase inhibitors are used to relief fever and various types of acute pain like headache, toothache, earache, sore throat, as well as postoperative and menstrual ones. They are also major ingredients in cold and flu mixtures. Unlike well-known organ toxicological profile, their prenatal toxicity was not fully established. For a long time, acetaminophen was considered as...

BACKGROUND Clinical symptoms and signs in acute otitis media (AOM) may differ depending on the various pneumococcal serotypes causing the disease. Alteration in clinical presentation of AOM could be expected after wide-scale pneumococcal vaccinations if there were considerable differences between vaccine serotypes and nonvaccine serotypes. METHODS In this study, data from 831 children in the ...

Accepted 21 January 1998 A 20-year-old man with visceral leishmaniasis receiving sodium stibogluconate therapy presented with left earache, skin eruptions over the left ear and side of the neck, inability to close the left eye, dribbling of saliva through the left side of the mouth, facial asymmetry with slurring ofspeech and hearing impairment (left ear) for two weeks. Four days later he also ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the occurrence of reported respiratory tract infection (RTI) symptoms and their effects on use of self and professional care among patients in the community. DESIGN A cross-sectional retrospective household survey. SETTING 12 administrative villages from rural Anhui, China. PARTICIPANTS 2160 rural adult residents aged ≥18 years registered as rural residents and ac...

Introduction: Referred otalgia is a challenging symptom, with the burden on the physician to identify the source. It is a pain originating outside the ear. This is caused by the complex nervous connections in the head and neck areas, the ear, the pharynx and the nose. Aim: To study the possible aetiologies of referred otalgia and to formulate an appropriate management plan. Materials and Method...