“Skylar, how many times must I tell you not to go outside with wet hair? You don’t want to catch cold, do you?” asked my Mom for the umpteenth time. I know it was a rhetorical question, but…I got sooo frustrated that I actually replied, “Mom,” I said, “you don’t need to worry because chicken soup will undoubtedly cure my cold if I get one”. I bet, like me, at some point in your life…your mom, or maybe your grandparent, has tried to impart this same wisdom to you too. After all, old wives’ tales like
Rhinovirus Introduction: To begin with, we already know that every year someone of the family, friends or even ourselves have exposure to be infected by the common colds. However, have you ever wonder about the cause of these illnesses or infections that we had experience? The higher percentage of all common colds worldwide were because of the Rhinoviruses, which is responsible for more cases of human illness than any other infectious agent. Let us figure out about this virus and how can we prevent
Use of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in a Vicks NyQuil Advertisement Advertisements often employ many different methods of persuading a potential consumer. The vast majority of persuasive methods can be classified into three modes. These modes are ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos makes an appeal of character or personality. Pathos makes an appeal to the emotions. And logos appeals to reason or logic. This fascinating system of classification, first invented by Aristotle, remains valid even today.
Rhinovirus - The Common Cold Introduction: Rhinovirus, pictured above, is best known as the common cold. It is a member of the picornaviridae family along with more virulent viruses such as polio and hepatitis A. The viruses of this family are characterized as small (20-30nm genome) positive polarity RNA viruses consisting of one genome segment and a nonenveloped capsid. Unlike the its more lethal relatives, Rhinovirus is designed to attack a host numerous times during their lifetime. It is the
the virus release chemicals that cause the surrounding blood vessels to swell” (96). This causes inflammation because the blood vessels need to expand to give room for more white blood cells, which fight off sicknesses such as the common rhinovirus. The rhinovirus is often very weak and is responsible for
undiscovered causes (Nourse 56). The virus who is usually responsible for a cold is called a rhinovirus, and it accounts for around thirty to fifty percent of all colds that afflict the adult part of the human population. The virus that is secondly responsible for most common colds, is called a coronavirus, and it is only different form a rhinovirus by a margin of few select proteins in it's molecular structure. The rhinovirus is so small that it can only be measured in milimicrons, one milimicron is about 1/25
Randomized Trial. Archives of Family Medicine, 7,6 Percival, S. (2000) Use of Echinacea in Medicine. Biochemical Pharmacology, 60, 155-158 Turner, R., Riker, D., Gangemi, D. (2000). Ineffectiveness of Echinacea for Prevention of Experimental Rhinovirus Colds. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 44, 1708-1709
Imagine you are out to lunch one day with your son and someone lights up a cigarette. All of a sudden you notice that your child is not breathing properly, he begins to wheeze, and tells you that he feels like he cannot breathe, and his chest feels tight. You and your son are rush to the nearest emergency, where the doctors discovers that your son has just had an asthma attack triggered by the cigarette smoke. Asthma is condition that affects the lungs. The airways of the lungs swell and the muscles
longer than an innate immune response, upon its first exposure to said antigen or pathogen. In contrast, the innate immune system responds much faster, however there is no memory component involved. For instance, an individual could be exposed to a rhinovirus more than once and become sick each time. This is different than the adaptive immune response because once
v. Platelets- 323 10*3/µL vi. Electrolytes- Sodium 137 mmol/L, potassium 4.3 mmol/L, chloride 100 mmol/L, BUN 13 mg/dL, creatinine 0.8 mg/dL, calcium 9 mg/dL. b) ABG- i. pH- 7.34 ii. PCO2- 56 iii. HCO3- 27 iv. PO2- 81 v. SaO2- 95% c) Micro- i. Rhinovirus- Positive 10) Previous Chest X-Ray- a) The reason for chest X-ray was to evaluate the patient’s respiratory distress. b) An anterioposterior technique was used for the chest X-ray. c) Airway, trachea was in the middle, tip of the endotracheal tube
to illness. With flu and cold season just around the corner, school age kids are at higher risk for contracting this all too common viral infection. One of the main reasons, children visits their doctors or stay home from school is related to Rhinovirus, Influenza virus and Group B streptococcal infections (Johns Hopkins Medicine).
“The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus” by Richard Preston presents the true story of Ebola’s origin’s in an entertaining yet realistic manner. Preston does a fantastic job introducing the reader to Ebola and Marburg, their transmission routes, symptoms, and how research is done in Hot Labs. Ebola and Marburg are filo viruses shaped like tangled ropes or intertwines snakes. Once they’ve infected their patients, they wreak havoc on the connective and intestinal
Microbe is a microorganism, that is known as a bacterium that cause diseases or fermentation. Microbes can have a powerful impact on each individual’s health and well-being. The role of antibiotics is through the influence of things that the cells of bacteria have. ("Microbe", 2017, p.2). This essay will briefly outline a range of common microbes that affect human health and discuss the benefits and risks of antibiotics, and discuss a range of therapeutic uses of microbes. For many years antibiotics
Epidemiology: RSV plays a major role in respiratory infection among the childhood population, especially infants and younger children. It is the leading viral agent respiratory tract disease worldwide, causing bronchiolitis and pneumonia in infants and young children. There are about 100,000 cases and 4,500 deaths yearly of RSV infections in the United States (1). Typically, all children are infected with RSV by age 2 to 3; however, the infections can reemerge up to 5 to 6 per year. RSV was first
The main lipids components of the cell membrane are the sphingolipids, cholesterol, and other phospholipids. The most predominant element of the sphingolipid molecule in the cell membrane is sphingomyelin, which is composed of a hydrophilic phosphorylcholine headgroup and a highly hydrophobic ceramide molecule. The ceramide group in sphingomyelin composed from amide ester of the sphingoid base D-erythro-sphingosine and a fatty acid of C16–C26 chain length. The lateral association of sphingolipids
sneezing, stirring dust, liquid spraying, or generally any activity that generate aerosol particles or droplets. These pathogens can include viruses, bacteria, or fungi. Some common examples of pathogens that are spread via air-borne transmission are rhinovirus, hantavirus, adenovirus, and influenza, among many others (cdc.gov). Food-borne transmission refers to any illness that results due to the consumption of contaminated food, pathogenic bacteria, viruses, or parasites that contaminate food, as well
ABSTRACT The study aimed to evaluate the effect Echinacea extract (E) on the testicular antioxidants function in normal rats or that subjected to anti-androgenic compound, cyproterone acetate (CA). Rats were divided into 5 groups treated daily via an oral tube for two intervals 2 and 4 weeks, 1st control, 2nd E (63mg/kg), 3rd CA (25mg/kg), 4th E+CA and 5th E as prophylactic one week before E+CA treatment. So CA used as a positive control compound with antiandrogenic activity with proposed testicular
Review of Literature History The word ‘asthma’ is derived from the Greek verb “aazein”, which means to exhale with open mouth in literal meaning [7]. The entity of asthma was first mentioned in 8th century BC, in Iliad by Greek poet Homer, as a complaint of a short-drawn breath, but the earliest mention of asthma in a medical view was done by Hippocrates in 4th century BC. Greek philosopher Hippocrates, in his text The Corpus Hippocraticum, in which asthma was first described as “the condition that