School-aged children often experience acute respiratory symptoms. In a multicentre European study, the association between chronic respiratory symptoms (reported in a questionnaire), skin-prick test results, and lung function, and the occurrence of acute respiratory morbidity, was examined among children aged 6-12 yrs with chronic respiratory symptoms. Children with chronic respiratory symptoms...

introduction: gastro-esophageal reflux (ger) is common among children of different ages and treatment is necessary since it could turn in to gastroesophageal reflux disease (gerd) and cause complications. in patients that do not respond to medical treatment and patients that have complications such as repeated apnea, pneumonia, stricture caused by esophagitis and failure to thrive, surgical tre...

We read with interest the paper by LARSSON et al. [1] in which they reported in a large population-based sample of nonsmokers that respiratory symptoms were related to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). They gave special consideration to respiratory symptoms triggered by a variety of lower airway irritants and they showed for these symptoms that the relation was stronger in females than in male...

In a pilot study to investigate the health effects of swine confinement work on the respiratory tract pulmonary function tests and a questionnaire for respiratory symptoms were used. Complete data, including qualitative exposure information, were gathered for 132 owners of fattening, breeding, or closed pig farms. All measured pulmonary function values, except the FVC, were on average lower tha...

BACKGROUND Respiratory symptoms are common in the general population, and their presence is related to Health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The objective was to describe the association of respiratory symptoms with HRQoL in subjects with and without asthma or COPD and to investigate the role of atopy, bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR), and lung function in HRQoL. METHODS The European Com...

Diarrhea and respiratory disease were common problems among ground troops deployed to the Middle East during Operation Desert Shield. In order to determine the prevalence and impact of diarrheal and upper respiratory disease among shipboard personnel during this period, an epidemiologic survey was conducted on the hospital ship, USNS Mercy T-AH 19. An episode of acute diarrhea was reported by 4...

human linguatulosis poses an important medical and veterinary concern in en-demic countries. animals, as reservoir host, play a major role in transmission of infestation and epidemiology of the disease. this study reports a case of human linguatulosis caused by linguatula serrata in the city of kerman, south-eastern iran. a woman suffering from upper respiratory symptoms is presented. the pa-ti...

background: cotton is the main agricultural export product in benin. cotton dust is thus present in the air during the handling and processing of cotton. this dust contains a mixture of substances including ground up plant matter, fibres, bacteria, fungi, soil, pesticides, noncotton matter, and other contaminants. while cotton processing is decreasing in industrialized countries, it is increasi...