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Try the following measures to help reduce congestion in your sinuses:Apply a warm, moist washcloth to your face several times a day. Drink plenty of fluids to thin the mucus.
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Antibiotic medications are used to treat acute sinusitis. Suitable antibiotics include sulfa drugs, amoxicillin, and a variety of cephalosporins.
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Antibiotic medications are used to treat acute sinusitis. Suitable antibiotics include sulfa drugs, amoxicillin, and a variety of cephalosporins.
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A 2001 telephone survey in northern California revealed that use of alternative treatments for rhinosinusitis and asthma is common in the population, with 52% reporting use of alternative treatment in the past 12 months to treat breathing or nasal...
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Increasing the humidity in your home helps eliminate the dry air that can irritate and inflame the passages in the nose and throat. Humidified air can relieve the discomfort of colds and the flu and can be particularly helpful for people who have ...
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Immunotherapy is a treatment to reduce a person's allergic reaction to allergens such as pet dander, bee stings or pollen.
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Immunologic therapy is the treatment of disease using medicines that boost the body''s natural immune response.Immunologic therapy is used to improve the immune system''s natural ability to fight diseases such as cancer, hepatitis and AIDS. These dr...
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Detailed information on biological therapy, also called immunotherapy, biological response modifier therapy, or biotherapy
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Immunologic therapy is the treatment of disease using medicines that boost the body''s natural immune response.Immunologic therapy is used to improve the immune system''s natural ability to fight such diseases as cancer, hepatitis and AIDS. These dr...
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Immunologic therapy is an approach to the treatment of disease that uses medicines for stimulating the body''s natural immune response.Immunologic therapy is used to improve the immune system''s natural ability to fight such diseases as cancer, hepa...
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This treatment is sometimes called biological therapy. Immunotherapy is when drugs are used to make the body's own immune system fight cancer. Its goal is to kill cancer cells without having to remove the bladder. It can also help keep the bladder cancer from coming back.
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These treatments use substances that are also naturally made by your immune system. They work by killing lymphoma cells or slowing their growth. Or they get your own immune system to more effectively attack the lymphoma cells.
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Immunotherapy is a form of biological therapy. It uses substances to activate your own immune system. Sometimes these substances are called biologicals. Then, your immune cells better recognize and attack the cancer cells. Doctors use more than one type of substance to treat melanoma.
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Venom immunotherapy is the process of injecting venom to treat various conditions. The most common form of venom immunization is bee venom therapy(BVT), with honeybee venom or stingers used to treat conditions.
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Your doctor may recommend immunotherapy if you have early-stage, superficial bladder cancer. This means the cancer has not spread beyond the lining of your bladder. Immunotherapy may be used alone to treat bladder cancer.
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Your doctor may suggest immunotherapy if one of these cases applies to you. You have advanced melanoma. In this case, the goal of immunotherapy is to help shrink the tumor. You may have this treatment along with chemotherapy. Or your doctor may suggest a clinical trial of immunotherapy to help you.
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One of the main immunotherapy drugs used for multiple myeloma is Thalomid (thalidomide). Not everyone who takes this drug has side effects. If you do, they may include one or more of these, listed from the most to least common.
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The immunotherapy drug interferon can cause any of these side effects. Flu-like symptoms, such as tiredness, muscle aches, runny nose, or low-grade fever
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Immunotherapy is a treatment that uses your immune system. The immune system is the group of cells and organs that work together to defend your body against disease. This is a new and promising treatment. Some doctors feel there will be many cancer advances in the future from immunotherapy. Immunotherapy is also known as biologic therapy.
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This type of treatment gets your immune system to more effectively attack the cancer cells.
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Immunotherapy boosts the body's immune system to fight the cancer. This treatment is also called biological therapy.
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The most common way to give immunotherapy for bladder cancer is intravesically. That means the drugs are placed directly into your bladder instead of injected into your blood or taken as pills. Early-stage bladder cancer can often be successfully treated with the drug BCG (bacillus Calmette-Guerin). The doctor puts BCG directly into your bladder by inserting it through a catheter in your urethra. Your body's immune system responds to the presence of BCG, and the bladder cancer cells are destroyed.
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Side effects can be severe, but usually improve after the treatment is finished.
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Here are some of the side effects that are common with immunotherapy for bladder cancer.
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Immunotherapy gets your immune system to more effectively attack cancer cells. These are the 2 main types of immunotherapy used to treat advanced melanoma, which means it has spread.
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Oral rehydration therapy(ORT) involves the replacement of fluids and electrolytes lost during an episode of diarrheal illness. Diarrheal illnesses are pervasive worldwide, and they have a particularly large impact in the developing world.
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Nasal irrigation is the practice of flushing the nasal cavity with a sterile solution. The solution may contain antibiotics.Nasal irrigation is used to clear infected sinuses or may be performed after surgery to the nose region.
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During surgery, your surgeon uses the endoscope and other instruments to clear blockages. If you have local anesthesia, you'll be awake and may hear sounds or feel tugging. But you shouldn't feel any pain. After blockages are removed, air circulates and mucus can drain normally.
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Functional endoscopic sinus surgery(FESS) is a minimally invasive surgical procedure that opens up sinus air cells and sinus ostia(openings) with an endoscope.The use of FESS as a sinus surgical method has now become widely accepted; and the term"...
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Detailed information on Endoscopic sinus surgery in children The purpose of endoscopic sinus surgery is to open the passages of the sinuses allowing for proper drainage to the nose. It is called an endoscopic procedure because the physician uses an endoscope (a small, flexible tube with a light and a camera lens at the end) to view the inside of the nose. Small incisions or cuts are made to allow the scope to pass. The cuts are usually made inside of the nose. The physician may create new passages or open existing ones by removing polyps, cysts, or thickened mucous membranes.
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