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Cake day: August 7th, 2023

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  • I had croup often as a kid. It was often enough that I knew, as a little 4 or 5 year old, to run a hot shower and sit on the edge in the middle of the night to help clear it up a little and cough up a bunch of nasty stuff.

    One night I woke up short of breathe again and started the shower but it didn’t get better. I woke my parents up and apparently my lips were blue. I was so dehydrated and my throat was so irritated that it started closing up.

    If this becomes a chronic thing as he gets older, use a steaming hot shower to act as a home remedy. It works similarly to the nebulizer.

    I believe they should be using normal saline 0.9% unless they see a reason to use an inhaled steroid. The steroid has an anti-inflammatory effect that reduces any possible swelling in the respiratory tract. Normal saline just helps loosen up the mucous stuck in the respiratory tract. A steamy shower would do the same once he’s a little older.

    I hope it all works out.











  • Considering that human diet can modify the metabolic rate and the release of different odor-related volatile metabolites (Havlicek & Lenochova, 2006; Ajibola et al., 2013; Baranska et al., 2013; Zuniga et al., 2017), it is not surprising that some foods and alcoholic beverages can have an impact on the release of kairomones. However, as shown in this section, the literature on these aspects is quite scarce and further studies on the effects of diet on susceptibility to mosquitoes are needed.

    Reading the sections prior to that, it seems metabolic rate and some other factors matter more in the attraction of mosquitos - mostly odors and other stuff influenced by genetics.