From: Baptist Memorial Health Care, BMHCC	Category: Infectious Disease
City: Memphis	Language: English

Croup is a childhood respiratory illness that causes a charecteristic hacking cough. Fever, runny nose, and a barking cough are the common symptoms. Doctors can also hear a high pitch stridor. A humidifier can help to improve the barking cough.

From: Johnson and Johnson, Health	Category: Infectious Disease
City: New Brunswick	Language: English

Tips for dealing with a cold. The common cold causes symptoms of runny nose, sore throat, nasal congestion, cough and sneezing, and is caused by a virus, which does not respond to antiobiotics. There are only a few circumstances that an antibiotic should be used in patients with a cold.

From: Becky Kuhn, MD	Category: Infectious Disease
City: Long Beach	Language: English

Symptoms of AIDS. The symptoms of AIDS includes rapid weight loss, dry cough, recurring fever, night sweats, profound and unexplained fatigue, swollen lymph nodes in the neck, groin, or armpits, diarrhea for more than a week, white spots on the tongue, pneumonia, red or brown blotches under the skin, in the mouth or nose, memory loss and depression.

From: Lucy Tompkins, MD, PhD	Category: Infectious Disease
City: Stanford	Language: English

H1N1 questions: Lucy Tompkins, MD, PhD, the Director of Infection Control at Stanford Univ. Hospitals, discusses the common questions about H1N1 flu. People older than age 65 are considered at high risk due to decreased immune function, so they should be vaccinated.

From: William Marshall, MD	Category: Infectious Disease
City: Rochester	Language: English

Is the Swine Flu vaccine safe? The best way to protect yourself and your family from swine flu is the swine flu vaccine. The H1N1 swine flu vaccine is safe. It has similar risk as the regular flu vaccine. Dr. William Marshall, an infectious disease physician at the Mayo Clinic, discusses swine flu or H1N1 and the vaccine for Swine Flu.

From: Cornelia Dekker, MD	Category: Infectious Disease
City: Stanford	Language: English

H1N1 Vaccine. She expects that the side effects and risks of the H1N1 vaccine will be similar to the standard flu vaccin. Patients at high risk, such as pregnant women and children greater than 6 mo are high priority for vaccine. Simple ways to prevent H1N1 spread includes spreading out when kids are in tight spaces/lines, and sneezing into the crook of your elbow, and wash your hands frequently. Dr Cornelia Dekker. Pediatric ID, Stanford Univ.

From: Yvonne Maldonado, MD	Category: Infectious Disease
City: Stanford	Language: English

Swine Flu Health Tips: Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, a pediatric infectious disease physician at Stanford Univ. Packard Children's Hospital, discusses swine flu health tips.

From: Michael K Davis, MD	Category: Infectious Disease
City: Pensacola	Language: English

Michael Davis, MD, pediatrician, discusses giardiasis or giardia lamblia infection induced diarrhea in children. This diarrhea is contagious, and usually begins from a child that drinks water from a lake or creek that has dropping from an infected animal. In addition to profuse watery diarrhea, other symptoms include extremely stinky stools, excess gas, abdominal bloating, loss of apetite, weight loss, and dehydration.

From: Michael K Davis, MD	Category: Infectious Disease
City: Pensacola	Language: English

Michael Davis, MD, pediatrician, discusses whooping cough or pertussis in children. Whooping cough is a respiratory illness that causes a charecteristic whooping type of cough, and pneumonia. It is very contagious, but the available vaccine has decreased the number of cases. The treatment is with antibiotics.