Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management
Wednesday 14 August 2024, 12:45 AM
The right way to breathe during the coronavirus pandemic
Wednesday 29 July 2020, 12:15 AM
Breathing in through the nose is an integral part of meditation and delivers virus-fighting gases to the lungs
CLINICAL COMMENT
Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist Louis Ignarro discusses how nitric oxide works in the body as well as its potential role as an inhaled therapy for COVID-19
Key points, The nasal cavities continuously produce nitric oxide that is chemically identical to the NO used clinically by inhalation.
NO triggers many differen
References
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2. Akerström S, Mousavi-Jazi M, Klingström J, et al. Nitric oxide inhibits the replication cycle of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus. J Virol 2005;79(3):1966–69.
3. Keyaerts E, Vijgen L, Chen L, et al. Inhibition of SARS-coronavirus infection in vitro by S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine, a nitric oxide donor compound. Int J Infect Dis 2004;8(4):223–26.
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