BACKGROUND Knowing what substances cause death in intoxicated patients is of medical, legal, and political relevance. Harmonized data documentation like TESS (Toxic Exposure Surveillance System) in the United States does not exist yet in Germany. However, the GIZ-Nord Poison Center in Göttingen issues an annual report that includes fatalities. The aim of this study was to obtain an overview of ...

Results A 32-year-old Brazilian woman presented with chronic pruritic eyes for three years and recurrent episodes of eyelid inflammation during the last six months in an ophthalmology practice. The clinical finds were conjunctival hyperemia and edema of the eyelids. The hypothesis of perennial allergic conjunctivitis was done and the use of alcaftadine eye drops once a day was prescribed. She r...

This paper employs Quality Function Deployment (QFD) methodology to translate customer needs and requirements into the quality characteristics to improve quality for an existing product to develop a new consumer product. The traditional quality function deployment technique consists of six steps. The purpose of the first step is to measure the voice of the customer that reveals his/her needs an...

 Client education on the use of topicals with written discharge information is mandatory.  The medical and financial advantages of using topical therapy should be discussed. A topical treatment and maintenance program may reduce the need for long-term continual systemic medications.  Inform owners that medicated shampoos do not typically lather well so that they do not over apply the product...

Dandruff and seborrhoeic dermatitis are accompanied by bothersome itch. We have established a novel non-invasive methodology to sample histamine levels in the stratum corneum in order to facilitate an understanding of pruritogenesis in this condition. Histamine levels were assessed in two groups of subjects with dandruff before and after 3 weeks of treatment with a commercial potentiated zinc p...

BACKGROUND Diaper rash is one of the most common skin disorders of infancy and childhood. Some studies have shown that Shampoo-clay was effective to treat chronic dermatitis. Then, it is supposed that it may be effective in diaper rash; however, no published studies were found in this regard. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to compare the effects of Shampoo-clay (S.C) and Calendula officinalis (C...

I was wondering about the chemical sodium laureth sulfate. I have received several forwarded e-mails about this causing cancer by a lawyer looking into the matter. This chemical was said to be in many shampoos to create a nice lather, but it's actually a garage cleaner and is a cheap substance for the manufacturer, and in the past, only 1 in 2000 would get cancer from this, and now it's about 1...

INTRODUCTION Scalp care is essential because it determines the health and condition of the hair and prevents the diseases of scalp and hair. The objectives of our study were to correlate race and hair types, to determine the awareness of hair care among Malaysian medical students, and to distinguish the factors that affect the health of hair and scalp. METHODOLOGY It was a cross-sectional stu...