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Jun 08, 2021 10:00 AM Author: Kylene Metzger Spring season is a major contributor to flare-ups of those pesky environmental allergies. As trees and plants come out of their dormant phase, they also can make people feel quite miserable. And for the very unlucky ones, spring season is not the only allergy-triggered season. It's also very common for allergies to trigger in the summer and fall. The good news—there's a lot of things that can help relieve the misery. Understanding Seasonal Allergies The type of environmental allergies depends on the climate you live in. In drier climates, more pollen is produced, often spreading by wind. In humid climates where there is more rain, pollen is more easily knocked down. Seasonal allergies also stick around longer in warmer climates. The warmer the climate, the longer the allergy season. Allergy Triggers Spring Tree pollen is the biggest allergy trigger in the spring. Some trees can pollinate in late February or in early Ma...

Your little one feels warm to the touch. After taking their temperature, you realize it's 103°F — a fever! Even if this scenario sounds super familiar, it can still catch you off guard. Before you race to the doctor, though, take a deep breath. It's helpful to familiarize yourself with fever, its function in the human body, and any warning signs that may mean it's serious — or, alternatively, when you can relax. Related: What you should do if your newborn has a cold Normal body temperature is around 98.6°F, though it may fluctuate slightly higher or lower throughout the day. A fever starts with any temperature that reaches 100.4°F or above. A temperature between 100.4°F and 102.2°F is considered a low-grade fever; a temperature above 102.2°F is considered a high fever. A fever isn't a sickness in itself. Instead, elevated body temperature is a sign that your child's immune system is hard at work fighting off some type of invader — usually an il...

Drug-induced hypersensitivity syndrome (DIHS) is a severe reaction to medication that can cause serious problems in many different body systems. In some cases, the condition can cause complications that lead to death. DIHS is rare. But because it can become so serious, it's important to understand what medications are most likely to cause these reactions. Keep reading to learn what medications might induce a DIHS reaction, what risk factors can make you more vulnerable, and what to do if you suspect that you or someone in your care is experiencing this kind of response. DIHS is a drug reaction. It happens when your body responds to a drug the way it would respond to an infection. Infection-fighting T-cells in your immune system are unleashed in response to the medication, causing eruptions on your skin and damage to your internal organs. Several factors make DIHS different from an ordinary drug reaction. These include when DIHS: re-activates common herpes viru...

This piece was originally published on PolitiFact.com on April 9, 2020. According to this post on Facebook, pandemics like COVID-19 strike with eerie precision, every 100 years: "1720 — Plague; 1820 — Cholera outbreak; 1920 — Spanish flu; 2020 — Chinese coronavirus. What's happening? There is a theory that every 100 years, a pandemic happens. At first glance, nothing seems strange, but the accuracy with which these events take place is scary." The post was flagged as part of Facebook's efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The plague cited wasn't a pandemic; two of the other examples didn't occur neatly in the years cited; and, most importantly, numerous other pandemics have occurred without such synchronicity. "I am suspicious of the idea that pandemics operate to a railroad timetable," Yale University history professor Frank Snowden, author of "Epidemics and...

Show Caption Hide Caption Seasonal allergies: How to reduce symptoms Alleviate allergy symptoms with these 5 techniques. ProblemSolved, USA TODAY Our recent rains might have caused some allergy sufferers to feel their irritants. Grasses and molds, in particular, have grown with the wet weather. Dust mites also can be worse when it's humid. When it's actually raining, allergies tend to be better, but when the sun comes out and the wind blows, the allergens that were fueled by the rain get blown around.  Humidity, heat, wind and other weather conditions also can cause allergy flare-ups, said Dr. Juan Rodriguez Ramos, an allergist with Austin Regional Clinic.  Most days, molds and grasses have been in the medium level, said Dr. Kelly Simpson, an allergist with Austin Regional Clinic, but sometimes it's just the change in weather that triggers some people's allergies. "The fact that it keeps going back and forth could be bothering ...

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Hand, foot, and mouth disease is a contagious viral illness most common in infants and young children. However, adults can also develop the illness if they have exposure to the virus. Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) can produce the same symptoms in adults as in children, but adults are more likely than children to be asymptomatic. This article discusses the symptoms and treatment of HFMD in adults. Share on Pinterest This image shows how hand, foot, and mouth disease presents on the hands. Karl_BlaoStock/Shutterstock According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), HFMD is generally not serious in adults or children. The CDC note that most people, regardless of their age, recover from HFMD in 7–10 days without medical treatment. The American Academy of Dermatology Association state that most adults do not experience symptoms if they contract HFMD. Those who do will generally have benign symptoms. Complications that require medical in...

WellSpan pediatric medicine physicians across Central Pa. are seeing several COVID-19 cases, non-COVID viral upper respiratory infections, a lot of sore throats, and a very tough allergy season continues. The CVS MinuteClinic in York is seeing upper respiratory infections, seasonal allergies and contact dermatitis. Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Physicians Roseville Pediatrics reports a sharp uptick in strep throat, though non-strep sore throats, presumed to be viral, have also been on the rise. They also report and ongoing decrease in COVID-19 cases, although they are still seeing a couple per day. There are still high levels of croup and viral colds. Seasonall allergies are still high. They continued to see a lot of ear infections and an increase in swimmer's ear. Dr. Joan Thode offered the following advice about strep throat: "Both streptococcus bacteria and multiple viral infections can cause a sore throat, as can post-nasal drainage. Strep throat is ...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers from Jagiellonian University and the Polish Academy of Sciences has found that honeybees fed a diet of alcohol-spiked food exhibit withdrawal symptoms when the alcohol is removed. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, the group describes experiments they conducted with honeybees and why they believe their findings are relevant to treatment of alcoholism in humans. Prior research has found that studying the habits of other creatures can lead to new insights into human behavior—such research has sometimes involved the study of addiction in other animals. In this new effort, the researchers wondered about the impact of alcohol on bees—in the wild they are quite often exposed to naturally occurring alcohol in nectar. To learn more about how alcohol might impact honeybees, the researchers set up several beehives in an area where their diet was restricted to the food given to them by the research team. ...

COVID-19 symptoms, including fever, can start anywhere from 2 days to 2 weeks after exposure to the virus. Fever is one of the ways your body tries to fight off infection. For that reason, it's a common symptom of COVID-19, which typically gets reported by those who have it. However, not everyone who gets COVID-19 will develop a fever. According to the CDC, you have a fever if your temperature is 100.4°F (38°C) or greater, no matter what the cause. Read on to find out about fever as a symptom of COVID-19 and other symptoms that require medical care. In addition to being new, COVID-19 has often been unpredictable. As common a symptom as fever is, there is no definitive temperature range for this condition. Some people who test positive never run a fever. Others spike very high fevers. A large review of multiple studies across nine countries observed 24,420 adults with COVID-19, and 78 percent ran a fever at some point during their illness. A later review of stu...

Dr. Adami says, "There are no signs that the vaccine would reject the baby or the placenta. "It's not biologically possible, it doesn't make much sense." SAN DIEGO — Our vaccine numbers have gone up to 42% for fully vaccinated San Diegans but that number appears to have remained in the low-40s for a few weeks. One of the reasons could be because people who are pregnant or wanting a baby are hesitant about getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Being pregnant has its own set of concerns, most parents just want a healthy, happy baby and to get through labor without too much misery. But these days, when people are asking about the COVID-19 vaccine, it can be a daunting decision. It's a fairly new thing, after all… something our own moms never had to go through. To try and ease concerns and answer questions, Dr. Becky Adami is speaking one on one with her patients. She's a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist and Perinatologist through Sharp Mary...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus pop up, and some lead to increasing infections. The main new variants—named Alpha, Beta, and Gamma and first identified in Britain, South Africa, and India, respectively—have properties that make them more successful in transmitting and replicating than the original virus. A recent report, for instance, shows that the Alpha variant, which is now the dominant variant in the United States, works by disabling the immune system's first line of defense, interferon cells, which signal the body to attack viruses. Viruses are not technically living things—they invade living cells and hijack their machinery to get energy and replicate, and find ways to infect other living organism and start the process over again. How viruses mutate largely has to do with how they make copies of themselves and their genetic material, says Marta Gaglia, an associate professor of molecular biology and microbiology at the School of ...

You may feel ill and take your temperature assuming you have a fever. Instead, your thermometer reads 96°F (35.55°C). This lower-than-average temperature could occur for several reasons. You may have an illness that corresponds to low temperatures. You may have taken your temperature incorrectly. Age may play a factor. Finally, you may have a health condition causing the lower body temperature. Understanding body temperature is important to making sense of your 96-degree reading. Long ago, doctors considered 98.6°F (37°C) to be a "normal" temperature. That has changed in recent years. A normal temperature is now considered to be a bit lower than that, and it depends on your age and the method you use to measure your temperature. One 2019 research review looked at 36 prior studies about body temperature and found that adults less than 60 years old had a average temperature of 98.04°F (36.68°C). Adults more than 60 years old had a average temperature of 97.7°F (36.5...

June 21, 2021 2 min read Source/Disclosures Published by: Disclosures: Rosner reports no relevant financial disclosures. Please see the study for the other authors' relevant financial disclosures. ADD TOPIC TO EMAIL ALERTS Receive an email when new articles are posted on Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Subscribe ADDED TO EMAIL ALERTS We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Back to Healio Seven patients who developed myocarditis-like symptoms after COVID-19 vaccination were able to recover after treatment, according to a case series published in Circulation . As Healio previously reported, the CDC is investigating "relatively few" reports of myocarditis in young recipients of the messenger RNA-based COVID-19 vaccines. ...

Although most sufferers no longer die of lupus, it can still pose serious, sometimes-fatal complications, such as kidney damage and cardiovascular disease. Keeping an eye on symptoms is also important, because lupus may lead to inflammation and damage almost anywhere in the body, though it most often affects the skin, kidneys and joints. Symptoms can range from mild to severe, and they don't necessarily get worse the longer you have the condition (provided you're treating it properly). Keeping an eye out for other common lupus signs can help you decide if you should be screened for the disorder. That's especially pertinent if you fall into a higher-risk category for this disease. Anyone can get lupus, but it's most often diagnosed in women, with women of color (including, but not limited to, Blacks, Hispanics and Asians) facing higher risks than their white counterparts. Likelihood also increases with a personal or family history of autoimmune disease. Here are 5 po...

A man who had his left hand reattached after it was ripped off in an industrial accident has since felt "tingling" in his fingers. Christopher Wright had his hand torn off when it got caught in a machine in February 2021. After the incident, the 57-year-old from the West Midlands, England, was taken to hospital where surgeons reattached his hand. The procedure took 11-and-a-half hours, and was made possible because his hand was kept in a bag in the ambulance. Wright lost his little finger, and surgeons had to remove 6 centimeters (a little over 2 inches) from his arm to smooth out its surface so they could reattach his hand. Recalling his ordeal, Wright said in a statement in February: "Whilst working on a cardboard cartons machine, the chains grabbed my overalls and pulled my hand in to the machine. I heard a snap noise and at that moment I knew I had lost my hand. "After going on a first aid responder course a couple of years back, my training from the...

Parents can be surprised — and terrified. Charlie Hardin, host of an Amarillo, Tex., radio show, and his wife, Makayla, thought their 11-month-old was having spring allergies when he started coughing with a runny nose in late May. So did their pediatrician, who prescribed allergy medicine and suggested they give their baby boy, Moxxon, infant Tylenol.

For the first few decades after penicillin's introduction, bacterial adaptation and drug discovery leapfrogged each other, keeping antibiotics' ability to treat infections in front of pathogens' skill at evading them. But by the 1970s, that midcentury burst of innovation had faded. Making antibiotics is hard: the drugs have to be nontoxic to humans but lethal to bacteria, and they must use mechanisms that dangerous bacteria haven't yet evolved defenses against. But moving from antibiotics produced in nature to synthesizing compounds in a lab was even harder.  MS TECH | GETTY Resistance, meanwhile, leaped ahead. Overuse in medicine, agriculture, and aquaculture spread antibiotics through the environment and allowed microbes to adapt. Between 2000 and 2015, use of the antibiotics that have been reserved for the most lethal infections almost doubled worldwide. Levels of resistance differ by organism, drug, and location, but the most comprehensive report done to date, p...