The hypothesis that the prone sleeping position is associated with accumulation of upper airways secretions and increased bacterial growth was investigated in adults. Ten subjects with upper respiratory tract infection lay prone for one hour and then supine for one hour. Nasal swabs after the prone period yielded higher bacterial counts than swabs obtained after the supine period. This result c...

Introduction.Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a small cell-wall-lacking bacterium that belongs to the mycoplasma (Mollicutes) prokaryote micro-organisms. It is a common cause of both upper and lower respiratory tract infections in all age groups. Respiratory illness is the most common manifestation of M. pneumoniae infection; however, extrapulmonary involvement may be present or predominant. The skin, ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of parents regarding antibiotic usage for treating upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) among children. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted among 320 randomly selected parents attending a primary health clinic using self-administered questionnaires. RESULTS About two-thirds (69.1%) of the parents had poor knowledge lev...

results among the 158 children evaluated in this study, 49 individuals (31.1%) had rsv infection while nine individuals (5.7%) had hmpv infection. five (55.5%) of the hmpv-infected children were male while four (44.5%) were female and 27 (55.2%) of the rsv-infected patients were females and 22 (44.8%) were males. the rsv infections were detected in mainly < one year old children and hmpv infect...

The current study examined the association between temperature change and clinical visits for childhood respiratory tract infections (RTIs) in Guangzhou, China. Outpatient records of clinical visits for pediatric RTIs, which occurred from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2013, were collected from Guangzhou Women and Children's Hospital. Records for meteorological variables during the same period w...

The most prevalent diseases in infants and children, are respiratory infections including the common cold, acute rhinosinusitis, otitis media, flu-like illness, bronchitis, pneumonia. Despite being mostly innocuous, they have a large negative impact on society leading source of morbidity mortality globally. They further divided into two classes upper tract lower infections. purpose this researc...

BACKGROUND ProSeal LMA (PLMA), one of the advanced supraglottic devices has been successfully used to provide both spontaneous and controlled ventilation in children with upper respiratory tract infection (URTI). URTI does not imply restriction of disease to upper respiratory tract; it has been shown to produce pulmonary dysfunction. PEEP has been shown to improve oxygenation in such cases. Thi...