Purpose: Evidence on the efficacy and safety of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for the prevention and treatment of upper-respiratory-tract infection (URTI) in children is reviewed.

Acute respiratory infections (ARIs) are a leading cause of illness and death among children under five years old, particularly in developing countries. These infections can lead to serious health ...

Millions of people are affected by upper respiratory infections each year. Adults average two to three URIs yearly, and children average about eight each year. Most upper respiratory infections ...

Babies born during the COVID-19 pandemic had much lower risk for respiratory infections and antibiotic prescriptions during their first 18 months.

Health officials have reported a rise in human metapneumovirus (HMPV) infections among children ages 14 and under in China, but the exact magnitude of this uptick is unclear.

Five years after the first cases of COVID-19, reports of hMPV, an obscure respiratory virus in China may understandably raise ...

The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) on Tuesday said three more children are in intensive care with severe flu. In a ...

This study investigated regional differences in respiratory infection diagnoses in Poland to identify potential ambiguities in ICD coding and their implications for data comparability.

Diagnosis data were grouped by age (children, working-age adults ... The most problematic code appeared to be "acute upper respiratory infections of multiple and unspecified sites" (J06), which ...

In the majority of cases, HMPV causes only mild illness, but in some very young children, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems, it can be more serious. In the most serious cases, it can ...

Although most pediatric CAM users are children with chronic disease, the studies were done in otherwise healthy children with URTI who were not taking any medications. Thus, the data may not be ...