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This year’s flu season seems to be affecting an unusually high number of students, according to officials at University Health Services (UHS). Flu symptoms, which include aches, nausea, and fatigue, last for around five days, and have so far affected a “significant number” of students, UHS Director Dr. David Rosenthal ’59 wrote in an e-mail. Towards the end of last week, UHS saw between seven and ten cases a day—as many as normally expected for one week during the winter, Rosenthal wrote. Health professionals said...
When people show up at the ER with CO poisoning, their primary symptoms are usually dizziness, nausea, headaches and sometimes unconsciousness--warning signs that the molecule has blocked oxygen from reaching the brain. So the first concern of doctors is usually whether there has been brain damage or other neurological effects...
...THIS SPICE TO SETTLE THE STOMACH A new study in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology suggests that taking 1 g of ginger can cut the risk of postoperative nausea 31%. Caveat: ginger works for only about 65% of people who take...
...longer periods of time, said Joseph Griffin, Director of Harvard’s Department of Environmental Health and Safety. Rosenthal emphasized that the symptoms reflect a viral, not bacterial, infection—ruling out food poisoning as a cause of sickness. After a few students began suffering from nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea last Saturday night, Cabot House Allston Burr Resident Dean Stephen H. Kargere, along with university health and sanitation services, sent an e-mail to Cabot students reinforcing the importance of washing their hands before eating and after using the restroom. He also advised them...
...almost none of us have heard of but too many of us could encounter soon. The pathogen is known as Clostridium difficile-or C. diff as the scientists call it-a bacterium that used to confine itself to elderly or very ill hospital patients, causing severe diarrhea and nausea. A few doses of antibiotics used to be all it took to knock...