Upper Respiratory Tract In Children Research Articles

Carriage of pathogenic staphylococci in the upper respiratory tract of children.

Carriage of pathogenic staphylococci in the upper respiratory tract of children.

Hereditary allergic constitution in recurrent catarrh of the upper respiratory tract in children.

Hereditary allergic constitution in recurrent catarrh of the upper respiratory tract in children.

Upper Respiratory Infections in Childhood Some Diagnostic Aspects

The presentation of this paper on infections of the upper respiratory tract in children had its inception in an attempt to elucidate certain diagnostic aspects of these infections that are rarely included in the didactic presentation of this subject. These infections, their complications and sequelæ present an amazingly varied and protean symptomatology. To merely stress these infections as local occurrences in the nose, the throat and accessory sinuses is to open one’s self to the pitfalls of myopic diagnosis. It is not so much the purpose of this paper to discuss the complications and the treatment of these infections as it is to present the multiple diagnostic facets that they may reveal at times, and to attempt to point out the possible mode of generation of their symptomatology.

ADENOIDS AND IMMUNITY: A FURTHER CONTRIBUTION

The conclusion in my previous paper¹was that the adenoid is a physiologic lymphatic structure admirably designed to expose the greatest possible lymphatic surface as a barrier to the entrance of nasal infection through the nasopharyngeal mucosa into the general circulation. In a series of over three hundred children the adenoid was left at the time the tonsils were removed. Daily expulsive blowing exercises were insisted on as after-treatment. Nasal breathing improved; colds and sinus symptoms and acute and chronic aural conditions were less frequent. The problem of immunity in infections of the upper respiratory tract in children involves so much in its ultimate results that I do not think an apology is necessary for again presenting it for consideration. The end-results of infections of the nasal sinuses involving deeply the mucous membrane and also the bone, in varying degrees of osteomyelitis, and the mastoid involvements which extend to

Allergic and infectious conditions of upper respiratory tract in children: Cohen, M. B., and Rudolph, J. A.: J. A. M. A. 97: 980, 1931

Allergic and infectious conditions of upper respiratory tract in children: Cohen, M. B., and Rudolph, J. A.: J. A. M. A. 97: 980, 1931