Brief overview Symptoms: Seizure-like, dry, barking cough; possibly shortness of breath; fever, hoarseness, whistling breath sounds, weakness, general feeling of being ill. Causes and risk factors: usually caused by various cold viruses, very rarely by bacteria; promoting factors: cold winter air, air pollution, cigarette smoke, existing allergies Treatment: cortisone suppositories, antipyretics; in case of severe … Croup: Treatment, Symptoms
Symptoms A few days after transmission of the diphtheria bacteria, the disease begins with sore throat and headache, nausea or vomiting, fever, and difficulty swallowing. Later, the typical symptoms appear: Hoarseness, up to voicelessness Whistling breathing (stridor) Barking cough Swelling of the lymph nodes and swelling of the soft tissues of the neck. Coatings of … Diphtheria Causes and Treatment
Parents who have experienced an attack of croup with shortness of breath in their child, will not forget it so quickly. And are naturally afraid of a recurrence. Here you can learn how to quickly help their child during an attack. So what is real about real croup and false about pseudocroup? Or do both … (Pseudo) Croup: Fright in the Night ?
Introduction Diphtheria (croup) is an infection of the throat by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphteriae. Diphtheria occurs preferably in temperate climate zones with high population density. Today, it has become rather rare in our latitudes due to timely vaccination protection. Since it is nevertheless a dangerous infectious disease, children should be immunized against diphtheria from the … Diphtheria
Symptoms The time between infection, i.e. contact with a diphtheria infected person, and the actual onset of symptoms (incubation period) is only two to four days! Since the germs are mainly located in the throat, sore throats occur at first. If the patient now looks down the throat, he/she will recognize a whitish-brown coating (pseudomembrane, … Symptoms | Diphtheria
Therapy The therapy has two goals. On the one hand, the body needs an antidote to the diphtheria toxin quickly, on the other hand, the producer of the toxin, i.e. the germ itself, must be fought to counteract a “toxin supply”. The antidote (antitoxin, diphtheria-antitoxin-Behring) can be provided quickly by a clinic. Conventional penicillin is … Therapy | Diphtheria
Consequences of diphtheria Even if only about five cases of diphtheria per year are known in our latitudes, the probability of dying from it or suffering consequential damage is alarmingly high. All parents are therefore advised to have their children vaccinated in time.Occasionally, diphtheria can also lead to myocarditis. This occurs in about 20% of … Consequences of diphtheria | Diphtheria
Anatomically, the larynx represents the separation between the airways and the entrance to the gastrointestinal tract. During breathing, the entrance to the trachea is closed by the epiglottis. If a person takes in food in the oral cavity, it begins to chew and thus initiates the act of swallowing, the epiglottis closes and lies on … Pain in the larynx
Therapy The treatment for laryngeal pain is strictly dependent on the underlying disease. Children suffering from an acute pseudocroup attack should first be sedated. Studies have shown that even sedative measures contribute to rapid improvement of pain and shortness of breath. In addition, the affected children should be given cold humid air as soon as … Therapy | Pain in the larynx
Introduction Nearly every baby will suffer from coughing once in addition to a cold, which understandably worries many parents. However, coughing is not an illness in itself, but a symptom that can occur in the context of many diseases. There are completely harmless types of cough, but there are also some forms with which one … Coughing at the baby
Causes In principle, coughing is a useful reaction of the body. It is a reflex that occurs when substances have entered the airways that cannot be removed by the cilia on the mucosal cells and thus hinder breathing. These substances can be mucus, food residues or inhaled foreign bodies. The most common expression of a … Causes | Coughing at the baby
Symptoms The cough is, as I said, a symptom in itself. However, it can be accompanied by other (disease-specific) symptoms, depending on what caused it.With the (pseudo) croup, the cough sounds quite characteristically “barking”, it can however also be dry (with allergies and asthma), moist (in the course of a respiratory tract infection) or rattling. … Symptoms | Coughing at the baby
