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...Erin has strep throat. And I know how to act around...
...Frequent upper-respiratory infections--colds, strep throat, middle-ear and sinus infections--may be a sign of undiagnosed allergy. One of the ways the body responds to the tiny particles that trigger allergies is by producing mucus, which turns out to be a terrific medium for trapping and growing viruses and bacteria. Getting rid of the mucus, which means identifying and treating the allergy, makes it much less likely that you will catch those germs in the first place. As a general rule, infants who suffer more than six upper-respiratory infections a year, and school-age children and adults...
...ended traumatically, for almost everyone. In 1929 Hadden came down with a strep infection that reached his heart and killed him at age 31. Luce was left to carry on alone. The stock market crashed a few months later...
...pediatrician and geneticist who gave up an academic career to work among the Amish. One of those diseases, he has discovered, is glutaric aciduria, a metabolic deficiency that usually strikes children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years. Often triggered by childhood illnesses such as chickenpox or strep throat, it can cause permanent brain injury that can lead to chronic disability, medical complications and even early death...
...Chicago journalist Susan Schwendener, the symptoms were as familiar as the runny nose of a cold or the scratchiness of a strep throat. "You can't sleep, you can't eat, you lose weight because your mood's so blue." Schwendener, 33, suffered her first bout of depression as a teenager. She started taking Prozac 10 years ago. "The pain," she says, "sort of evaporated over time." By the age of 21, Beth Herwig, now an executive assistant in St. Louis, Mo., tipped the scales at more than 500 lbs. At 29, after years of yo-yo dieting...