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Discover all you need to know about Mycoplasma Pneumoniae, including its symptoms, treatment options, and prevention measures. Stay informed with our expert guide.
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Four confirmed cases of mycoplasma pneumoniae or the “walking pneumonia” have been detected in the Philippines this year, DOH said. One case was reported in January, one in July, and two in September.
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After Ativan you're not supposed to have caffeine for two days, I immediately forgot and had tea yesterday. I guess it probably doesn't matter but I try to follow instructions especially when I've been in the dang hospital so often
#I wish they had not given me that#It just made me dizzy and irritable#It made me think about my dad and cry#It did not affect my breathing at all except maybe made it worse bc I cried#Ugh#Ativan#ER#Hospital#Pneumonia#Mycoplasma#Caffeine
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I made an Instagram account!!
Hey! So, I made an Instagram account to raise awareness for PANS/PANDAS, Chronic Lyme, Mycoplasma, + coinfections. Basically the same thing I'm doing here, but more official-looking lol.
The account name is @pans_experience (the profile photo is a white circle with a green outline and a green ribbon, just in case).
No pressure to follow it, but I just wanted to put it out there =]
#chronic illness#actually chronically ill#chronically ill#pans/pandas#pandas/pans#sky's pans journey#chronic lyme#lyme disease#mycoplasma pneumonia#disabled#invisible disability#hidden disability
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Cek Fakta: Tidak Benar Pneumonia Virus Baru Lebih Berbahaya dari Covid-19
Tidak Benar Pneumonia Virus Baru Lebih Berbahaya dari Covid-19 – mendapati klaim pneumonia virus baru lebih berbahaya dari Covid-19, informasi tersebut diunggah salah satu akun Facebook, pada 1 Desember 2023.
Unggahan klaim virus baru pneumonia lebih berbahaya dari Covid-19 berupa tulisan sebagai berikut.
“Waspada Virus Baru Bernama Pneumonia Yang Di Temukan Di China Pada Tanggal.1 Desember 2023…
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Menkes Sebut Penyakit Mycoplasma Pneumonia Sudah Ada Sejak Lama
SERANG – Menteri Kesehatan RI Budi Gunadi Sadikin menyatakan bahwa mycoplasma pneumonia bahwa ternyata sudah ada sejak lama. Namun demikian, selama ini tidak pernah dilakukan tes untuk mengetahui kasus tersebut.
“Mycoplasma (pneumonia) ini sudah ada sejak lama, tetapi selama ini nggak pernah diukur. Sekarang kita sudah lihat, kita datangkan reagennya, tetapi ini bukan penyakit baru, ini sudah ada…
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More public health news, this time for humans. There's a variety of pneumonia that pops up every few years surging again for the first time since Covid.
We know what it is and how to treat it, so it's not as scary as a new disease like Covid-19, but the predictions are that the spread might be worse than usual. Probably because Covid has been damaging so many of our immune and respiratory systems.
So far Mycoplasma pneumonia has been reported in China, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, and the United States (specifically a single county in Ohio). It's mostly infecting children but has spread to some adults as well.
Current pneumonia vaccines do not protect against Mycoplasma. We're just going to have to be careful.
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Buongiorno carissimo Kon.
Ti sottopongo un quesito che magari può interessare anche ad altri.
Stamattina un noto quotidiano titola "Due casi di micoplasma pneumoniae a..." e indica una città italiana.
Mia figlia, nota per la frequenza di polmoniti che si è presa in poco più di una ventina d'anni, tra le tante ne ha avuta una da micoplasma circa una decina d'anni fa.
Si è fatta le debite bombe di antibiotici rigorosamente prescritti dal medico ed è passata anche quella.
Perché ora c'è così clamore? Son titoloni per attirare attenzione o effettivamente l'aumento della resistenza agli antibiotici può scatenare l'inferno?
Mi chiedo se abbia senso fare questi titoli...
Grazie sempre!
Qua si scontrano due realtà, una molto triste e una triste.
Quella molto triste è che chi scrive certi articoli con certi intenti era meglio se sua mamma avesse giocato a padel invece di trombare.
Quella triste è che al di là del solito allarmismo modello ameba mangia cervello (2 morti all'anno in tutto il mondo), l'infezione da mycoplasma pneumoniae presenta alcune caratteristiche che la rendono se non proprio pericolosa, almeno impegnativa.
La prima è che è silente, cioè che scatena una polmonite senza particolari sintomi ma che nonostante dia solo febbricola e stanchezza, in particolari casi può evolvere rapidamente in peggio.
La seconda è che è comunitaria cioè che a differenza di altre tipi di polmoniti che rimangono circoscritte al soggetto, è più trasmissibile nello stretto contatto.
La terza è che colpisce prevalentemente soggetti di giovane età.
E infine che per una particolare conformazione del batterio (è privo della parete cellulare) è resistente a molte classi di antibiotici che devono la propria efficacia all'indebolimento e alla distruzione di quest'ultima.
Continuo a pensare che certi articolisti (e certi direttori di giornali) avrebbero dovuto avere una casta mamma giocatrice di padel, però il problema esiste... insieme a quello di altre decine di infezioni opportunistiche che nessuno si caga ma che vengono tenute nel cassetto per i prossimi titoloni.
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Just a small little life update about my activity!!
(TW for health(respiratory))
— I wanted to be more active but unfortunately I got nerfed with Mycoplasma, known as Walking Pneumonia, one of the several respiratory illnesses going around. Mycoplasma is a hardy lil bacteria, SO TAKE IT FROM ME PLEASE BE CAREFUL WITH ANY OF THE COLD WEATHER ICKIES GOING AROUND. DON’T BE A VIC!!
But, it’s a WILD thing because (luckily) it’s a mild form of pneumonia but I still have the productive cough, aches, fatigue…. But feel good enough to still force my ass to do errands and work? ‘Tis strange, my friends! (But I guess that’s why it’s known as ‘Walking’.. 😑)
It’s a 4-6 week commitment and I got sick a few days before Christmas so. My activity hasn’t been great since then and that’s why. I value transparency and I consider you guys friends, so I figured you should know! I’m resting and healing up but there’s only so much I can do, so when I’m able to spit some replies out I have been! I pinky promise I haven’t been ignoring people. I’m still VERY excited for threads and plots, but I only have low level spell slots available to me so I’ve been expending them on select things.
Thank you for your patience and I love you all OODLES OF NOODLES!!!
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Chinese Hospitals Are Housing Another Deadly Outbreak
In Beijing and other megacities in China, hospitals are overflowing with children suffering pneumonia or similar severe ailments. However, the Chinese government claims that no new pathogen has been found and that the surge in chest infections is due simply to the usual winter coughs and colds, aggravated by the lifting of stringent COVID-19 restrictions in December 2022. The World Health Organization (WHO) has dutifully repeated this reassurance, as if it learned nothing from Beijing’s disastrous cover-up of the COVID-19 outbreak.
There is an element of truth in Beijing’s assertion, but it is only part of the story. The general acceptance that China is not covering up a novel pathogen this time appears reassuring. In fact, however, China could be incubating an even greater threat: the cultivation of antibiotic-resistant strains of a common, and potentially deadly, bacteria.
Fears of another novel respiratory pathogen emerging from China are understandable after the SARS and COVID-19 pandemics, both of which Beijing covered up. Concerns are amplified by Beijing’s ongoing obstruction of any independent investigation into the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19—whether it accidentally leaked from the Wuhan lab performing dangerous gain-of-function research or derived from the illegal trade in racoon dogs and other wildlife at the now-infamous Wuhan wet-market.
Four years ago, during the early weeks of the COVID-19 outbreak, Beijing failed to report the new virus and then denied airborne spread. At pains to maintain their fiction, Chinese authorities punished doctors who raised concerns and prohibited doctors from speaking even to Chinese colleagues, let alone international counterparts. Chinese medical statistics remain deeply unreliable; the country still claims that total COVID-19 deaths sit at just over 120,000, whereas independent estimates suggest the number may have been over 2 million in just the initial outbreak alone. Now, Chinese doctors are once again being silenced and not communicating with their counterparts abroad, which suggests another potentially dangerous cover-up may be underway.
We don’t know exactly what is happening, but we can offer some informed guesses.
The microbe causing the surge in hospitalization of children is Mycoplasma pneumoniae, which causes M. pneumoniae pneumonia, or MPP. First discovered in 1938, the microbe was believed for decades to be a virus because of its lack of a cell membrane and tiny size, although in fact it is an atypical bacterium. These unusual characteristics makes it invulnerable to most antibiotics (which typically work by destroying the cell membrane). The few attempts to make a vaccine in the 1970s failed, and low mortality has provided little incentive for renewed efforts. Although MPP surges are seen every few years around the world, the combination of low mortality and difficult diagnostics has meant there is no routine surveillance.
Although MPP is the most common cause of community-acquired pneumonia in school children and teenagers, pediatricians such as myself refer to it as “walking pneumonia” because symptoms are relatively mild. Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), influenza, adenoviruses, and rhinoviruses (also known as the common cold) all cause severe inflammation of the lungs and are far more common causes of emergency-room visits, hospitalization, and death in infants and young children. Why should MPP be acting differently now?
One contributing factor to the severity of this outbreak may be “immunity debt.” Around the globe, COVID-19 lockdowns and other non-pharmaceutical measures meant that children were less exposed to the usual range of pathogens, including MPP, for several years. Many countries have since seen rebound surges in RSV. Several experts agree with Beijing’s explanation that the combination of winter’s arrival, the end of COVID-19 restrictions, and a lack of prior immunity in children are likely behind the surging infections. Some even speculate that that substantial lockdown may have particularly compromised young children’s immunity, because exposure to germs in infancy is essential for immune systems to develop.
In China, MPP infections began in early summer and accelerated. By mid-October, the National Health Commission had taken the unusual step of adding MPP to its surveillance system. That was just after Golden Week, the biggest tourism week in China.
Infection by two diseases at the same time can make things worse. The usual candidates for coinfection in children—RSV and flu—have not previously caused comparable surges in pneumonia. One difference this time is COVID-19. It is possible that the combination of COVID-19 and MPP is particularly dangerous. Although adults are less susceptible to MPP due to years of exposure, adults hospitalized for COVID-19 who were simultaneously or recently coinfected by MPP had a significantly higher mortality rate, according to a 2020 study.
Infants and toddlers are immunologically naive to MPP, and unlike COVID-19, RSV, and influenza, there is no vaccine against MPP. It seems implausible that no child (or adult) has died from MPP, yet China has not released any data on mortality, or on extrapulmonary complications such as meningitis.
Most disturbing, and a fact being downplayed by Beijing, is that M. pneumoniae in China has mutated to a strain resistant to macrolides, the only class of antibiotics that are safe for children less than eight years of age. Beyond discouraging parents to start ad hoc treatment with azithromycin, the most common macrolide and the usual first-line antibiotic for MPP, Beijing has barely mentioned this fact. Even more worrying is that WHO has assessed the risk of the current outbreak as low on the basis that MPP is readily treated with antibiotics. Broader azithromycin resistance in MPP is common across the world, and China’s resistant strain rates in particular are exceptionally high. Beijing’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported macrolide resistance rates for MPP in the Beijing population between 90 and 98.4 percent from 2009 to 2012. This means there is no treatment for MPP in children under age eight.
Fears over a novel pathogen are already abating. After all, MPP is rarely lethal. But antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is. Responsible for 1.3 million deaths a year, AMR kills more people than COVID-19. No country is immune to this growing threat. Since China, where antibiotics are regularly available over the counter, leads the world in AMR, it is inconceivable that this issue hasn’t yet come up, particularly during WHO’s World AMR Awareness week, from Nov. 18 to Nov. 24.
Any infectious disease physician would want to know: Did WHO asked China the obvious question—what is the level of azithromycin resistance of M. pneumonia in the current outbreak—and include the answer in its risk assessment? Or did it ask about resistance to doxycycline and quinolones, antibiotics that can be used to treat MPP in adults? Even if WHO did ask, China isn’t telling, and WHO isn’t talking.
China’s silence isn’t surprising. Its antibiotic consumption per person is ten times that of the United States, and policies for AMR stewardship are predominantly cosmetic. While surveillance is China’s strong point, reporting is not.
Despite Spring Festival, the Chinese celebration of the Lunar New Year and another peak travel period, approaching in February 2024, WHO hasn’t advised any travel restrictions. It should have learned the danger of accepting Beijing’s statements at face value. Four years ago, Beijing’s delay enabled more than 200 million people to travel from and through Wuhan for Spring Festival. That helped COVID-19 go global. Since China’s AMR rates are already so high, importing AMR from other countries isn’t a major concern for China. Export is the issue, and China’s track record in protecting other countries is abysmal.
Rather than repeating the self-serving whitewashing coming from Beijing, WHO should be publicly pressing China about the threat of mutant microbes. Halting AMR is essential. Before antisepsis and antibiotics, surgery was a treatment of last resort. Without antibiotics, we lose 150 years of clinical and surgical advances. Within ten years, we are at risk of few antibiotics being effective. It may not be the novel virus that people were expecting, but the next pandemic is already here.
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Until finally, a clue: A short segment of DNA belonging to what — as far as Needle can tell — appears to be bacteria that no one has ever described before.
"We think this may be a pathogen," he says, "It's something novel. It's in a proportion of the cases. It's funky."
Specifically, it appears similar to a genus of bacteria called Mycoplasma, which lack cell walls.
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Now, veterinarians and state health officials around the country are wrapping their heads around what appear to be hundreds of cases of a yet-to-be-identified respiratory illness. While there's no official count, cases are being investigated in a handful of states, including Colorado, Oregon and Illinois.
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Still, some veterinarians are concerned enough that they're recommending dog owners think about how to reduce their pets' potential exposure.
Dr. Amanda Cavanagh, an emergency and critical care veterinarian at Colorado State University, advises scaling back visits with other dogs and avoiding doggy daycares, boarding facilities and dog parks."
Just anecdotally, the chatter among veterinarians is that there are hot spots all over the country where some people are seeing an increase in respiratory cases," says Cavanagh.
In her state, the uptick in canine respiratory illness is obvious. Cavanagh says her hospital has about three to four dogs a day coming in — a clear increase from years past.
Unlike kennel cough that typically lasts about a week to 10 days, some of the dogs Cavanagh has treated had a cough for weeks to even months."
We're noticing that more dogs are getting secondary bacterial pneumonia," she says.
This is why it's also important for dog owners to make sure their pets are up to date on vaccines, especially those that guard against canine influenza and Bordetella, she says.
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"This is lasting a lot longer than we would expect. This isn't responding to the normal antibiotics, or we're having to do really intensive, aggressive therapy, even surgery for these animals," she says.
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trying to figure out if there’s a surge of mycoplasma where I live atm leading me down the always infuriating rabbit hole of reading more papers that say “wow all of the non-pharmaceutical interventions we took with COVID basically eliminated the occurrence of mycoplasma, other pneumonias, TUBERCULOSIS, and now these are all coming back since we stopped the NPIs (though mycoplasma took longer). So yeah there’s a new mycoplasma surge” like i know they say this just so matter of factly. but are you KIDDING ME
#before COVID I would get a cold maybe 3x a year. I’ve never been sick this much. And I’ve never had PNEUMONIA BEFORE. ugh ugh ugh#if I hear immune deficit again. breathes in. ow my lungs
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The surge in acute #respiratoryillnesses in kids aged 5 to 14 are caused by different types of viruses: #rhinoviruses, #mycoplasmapneumoniae, #RespiratorySyncytialVirus (#RSV) and #adenovirus, #China says and urging epidemic prevention and control measures.
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Cette nouvelle maladie respiratoire risque de remplacer le Covid-19 cet hiver
La pneumonie, liée à la bactérie Mycoplasma pneumoniae, semble toucher surtout les enfants. L’OMS a publié un communiqué et demande des informations plus détaillées à Pékin sur la situation.
On observe cette recrudescence de pneumonie depuis le mois d’octobre. La bactérie Mycoplasma pneumonia serait en cause. Elle provoque des pneumonies peu graves et qui ne nécessiteraient pas d’hospitalisation.
Sur les réseaux sociaux, des vidéos de parents et d’enfants entassés dans les couloirs d’hôpitaux chinois circulent déjà.
Il convient de respecter les gestes barrières de Covid-19.
Le Covid fait également son grand retour. Il est désormais recommandé de respecter les gestes barrières
Porter un masque quand c’est obligatoire ou recommandé (en particulier dans les hôpitaux ou dans les salles d’attente de médecin)
Aérer chaque pièce 10 minutes toutes les heures
Se laver les mains régulièrement à l’eau et au savon ou utiliser une solution hydroalcoolique
Saluer sans se serrer la main et éviter les embrassades
Tousser ou éternuer dans son coude ou dans un mouchoir
Se moucher dans un mouchoir à usage unique et le jeter après utilisation
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Vet Med in Warrior Cats: Whitecough, Greencough, and Yellowcough
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The two main respiratory infections in the warriors series are whitecough and greencough. Whitecough is less severe and can progress to greencough, which has worse symptoms and a graver prognosis. Vicky Holmes states in the 3rd Erin Hunter chat that whitecough is similar to a cough (likely an upper respiratory infection) and greencough is pneumonia (lower respiratory infection), but the specific diseases that each of these coughs represent is never mentioned. The name “greencough” comes from the green fluid that cats cough up when they are affected, whereas cats with whitecough are stated to cough up clear (serous) fluid. A third respiratory disease, yellow cough, makes an appearance in the A Vision of Shadows series. The disease presents similarly to greencough but does not respond to catmint.
There is no way to tell which pathogens each of these diseases might be caused by because the symptoms of each pathogen are very similar, so they are likely caused by several different pathogens and/or combinations. Feline respiratory disease complex (FRDC) is a major cause of upper respiratory infections in cats and is caused by any of the following pathogens, alone or in combination: feline herpes virus (FVR), feline calicivirus (FCV), mycoplasma felis, and chlamydia felis. Bartonella henselae and Bordetella bronchiseptica can also contribute to symptoms. FVR and FCV specifically cause 80-90% of the respiratory disease that is observed in cats. These pathogens are spread by respiratory droplets, direct contact with infected cats, or contact with fomites (objects that have come into contact with the pathogen). Previously infected cats can carry and spread FVR or FCV without showing clinical signs. Acute signs include fever, sneezing, nasal discharge, conjunctivitis, and rhinitis. “Coughing” is not a symptom of respiratory infections in cats, but it is frequently mentioned in Warriors. Cats cough when affected by a lower respiratory infection, laryngeal infection, allergies, or heartworms, but rarely cough as a result of an upper respiratory infection. Symptoms are often more severe in very old and very young cats, which is consistent with the books since kits and elders die the most often from whitecough or greencough. Cats that have respiratory infections in warriors are often shown to refuse food, which is consistent with findings that sick and/or feverish animals are often anorexic. Calicivirus causes painful lesions in the mouth, which can also contribute to cats refusing to eat.
FRDC is generally self limiting and resolves itself in 5-10 days in mild cases, but can take up to 6 weeks to resolve completely in more severe cases. Because of this, mild to moderate respiratory infections could be treated with just supportive care. Medicine cats do this by providing food, water, and rest to infected cats, which is why most cases of whitecough or other nondescript respiratory diseases are resolved in the series. The bigger issue is when there are more severe cases or cases that have ocular involvement.
Ocular involvement can result from almost any respiratory disease causing agent, and can range from discharge to severe conjunctivitis, ulcers, and even globe rupture. Conjunctivitis and other ocular symptoms of respiratory disease are never mentioned in Warriors besides some mild tearing. I will be talking about this issue more in an ocular section later on, as it connects to some broader issues.
To treat more severe cases of respiratory disease, veterinarians often use antivirals, antibiotics, and/or antifungal depending on the pathogens present. Supportive care should also be provided, in addition to feeding tubes and/or treatment of corneal ulcers if necessary. Medicine cats provide supportive care to their patients by providing them with food, water, and warm, dry bedding. For many cases of respiratory disease, this should be enough to help the cat survive since disease is usually self limiting and will resolve with time. A variety of herbs are used in Warriors to treat respiratory infections, but the most notable is catmint. Catmint is also known as catnip, and it is famously known to have psychological effects on cats by acting first as a stimulant from the smell and then a sedative from ingestion. While its effects mimic pheromones, which can be calming, there is no evidence that catmint can be used to combat respiratory disease. Catnip can also be toxic in large doses, causing nausea and vomiting. Cats also become slowly more resistant to its effects with repeated use. Chickweed and Hawkweed are both less effective treatments for greencough. Chickweed has been shown to have some antimicrobial properties, though it is most effective against salmonella and E.coli, both of which are not respiratory pathogens. Hawkweed has been used in some European countries to ease respiratory disease and asthma symptoms, but there has not been research on this. In Long Shadows, tansy is introduced as a way to prevent whitecough from progressing to greencough. Though tansy has been used for various medical issues in humans, it has never been reported to be used for respiratory disease. Coltsfoot is an herb that eases breathing, so it is commonly used for respiratory distress. Coltsfoot was historically used for coughs and respiratory distress in people, and recent studies have proved its efficacy in reducing lung inflammation. Brighteye and lovage are also mentioned briefly in Mistystar’s Omen as another treatment for coughing. These two herbs have been shown to improve symptoms of respiratory disease and allergies in humans, but have not been researched sufficiently. Lungwort is the herb that is presented to Puddleshine by Starclan to treat the emergent yellowcough epidemic in Shadowclan. Lungwort has been used to ease tuberculosis and asthma in humans, but again, there is no substantial research to back this. In addition, Birchsap is briefly mentioned as another possible treatment for yellowcough, but it’s not seen being used in the books. Birchsap traditionally has various medical and cosmetic uses in some cultures, but no research has been done to prove its efficacy.
Overall, the Warriors series gives a fairly accurate depiction of respiratory illness while leaving out some crucial details. The omittance of any ocular involvement, especially in young kittens where it is most prevalent, is a large oversight. The description of the disease process is mostly accurate, however coughing is not as common of a symptom as nasal discharge and rhinitis. Cats in feral colonies are often carrying these diseases without actively showing symptoms, which is why bouts of whitecough can appear suddenly in a clan (especially in times of stress and poor nutrition such as leafbare, which would suppress the cat’s immune responses). As far as treatment goes, medicine cats are providing adequate care to most cats but simply taking care of their basic needs. In more severe cases, medicine is needed. While none of the herbs listed can effectively mimic an antibiotic or antiviral, hawkweed, coltsfoot, brighteye, lovage, and lungwort seem like the most accurate treatments for infection used in the books. Coltsfoot specifically has the most evidence for easing respiratory symptoms, and would be beneficial for medicine cats to use in moderate to severe cases of respiratory disease.
Sources:
https://www.merckvetmanual.com/respiratory-system/respiratory-diseases-of-small-animals/feline-respiratory-disease-complex?query=feline%20respiratory%20disease
https://www.vet.cornell.edu/departments-centers-and-institutes/cornell-feline-health-center/health-information/feline-health-topics/respiratory-infections
https://vetmed.tamu.edu/news/pet-talk/feline-fine-the-benefits-of-catnip/
https://botanicalinstitute.org/eyebright/
https://botanicalinstitute.org/chickweed/
https://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/h/hawmou08.html
https://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/t/tansy-05.html
https://dsps.lib.uiowa.edu/roots/coltsfoot/
https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/lobaria_pulmonaria.shtml
#Vet med in warrior cats#vet med#warriors#warrior cats#long post#sorry to start off with an entire research paper but I think this one will be the longest section
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