Improvement in Lupus Nephritis Following Treatment With a Chinese Herbal Preparation

Article Abstract:

A Chinese herbal recipe containing 21 different herbs was used to bring about remission of lupus nephritis and chronic kidney syndrome, which indicates that the Chinese medicine may be useful in the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The patient was a 16 year old Chinese girl who had first shown signs of SL:E at age seven. After four months of herbal therapy, her edema was gone and her blood pressure was normal. The recipe contained herbs from the genera Prubella, Lycium, Bletilla, Ligustrum, Dianthus, Myrrha, Eucommia, Rehmannia, Rosa, Rubia, Imperata, Curculigo, Panax, Astragalus, Codonopsis, Dioscorea, Nelumbo, Boswellia, Polygonum, Citrus, and Glycyrrhiza

Statistical Data Included, Measurement, Drug therapy, Systemic lupus erythematosus, Immunoglobulin G, Medicine, Chinese, Traditional Chinese medicine

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Neonatal early-onset Escherichia coli disease: the effect of intrapartum ampicillin

Article Abstract:

The use of ampicillin in pregnant women during childbirth to prevent group B streptococcal (GBS) infection in the infant may lead to drug resistance in other bacteria such as E. coli. Researchers analyzed the rate of drug resistance in E. coli infections in newborns before and after the hospital began giving ampicillin to pregnant women at risk of GBS infection. Although the overall rate of E. coli infection in newborns did not change significantly after this policy was implemented, a greater percentage were resistant to ampicillin. The rate of ampicillin-resistant infection was higher in infants whose mothers received ampicillin.

Causes of, Drug resistance in microorganisms, Microbial drug resistance, Escherichia coli infections, Ampicillin

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