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Postoperative vomiting is a common and unpleasant complication. The purpose of the present study was to verify if dexamethasone reduces the incidence of vomiting when injected IV in children anaesthetized with halothane for common paediatric operations. We also studied the incidence of vomiting when

Intestinal parasites cause significant morbidity and mortality. Diseases caused by Enterobius vermicularis, Giardia lamblia, Ancylostoma duodenale, Necator americanus, and Entamoeba histolytica occur in the United States. E. vermicularis, or pinworm, causes irritation and sleep disturbances.

OBJECTIVE To increase recognition and present symptom assessment strategies for treating cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS). METHODS Clinical experience, a range of pediatric, gastroenterological, emergency medicine research, survey, and literature review reports on CVS. CONCLUSIONS Improved efforts to

The characteristics of common migraine are not unique, they also appear in other forms of benign headaches. As there are no laboratory tests and biological signs enabling the diagnosis of migraine and its differentiation from the headache due to muscle contractrion, clinical criteria which are

The key points of this article are anorexia and cachexia are: A major cause of cancer deaths. Several drugs are available to treat anorexia and cachexia. Dyspnea in cancer usually is caused by several factors. Treatment consists of reversing underlying causes, empiric bronchodilators,

Factors to consider in the care of a newborn infant Family history Extremes of body temperature Poor feeding Vomiting Failure to pass urine or meconium Rapid breathing with or without cyanosis Jaundice Rashes and birthmarks 'Jitteriness' Unusual features Collapse

Sixty cancer patients who were receiving chemotherapy at an outpatient Oncology Centre were surveyed for their views on a list of treatment-related toxicities. The severity of each toxicity was assessed using a visual analogue scale. Sixty percent of patients felt that the overall toxicity was

BACKGROUND Adenomyoma occurs most commonly in the fundus of the gallbladder, seldom in other parts of the gallbladder and rarely in the extrahepatic biliary tree, where most lesions are localised to the common bile duct or papilla of Vater. Adenomyoma of the common hepatic duct is extremely rare. To

The exact incidence of common post-operative complications in children is not known. Most common one is post-operative nausea and vomiting followed by respiratory complications leading to hypoxia. Cardiac complications are less in children without associated congenital cardiac anomaly.