Atopic dermatitis or commonly known as eczema is a condition
that makes your skin red and itchy. This chronic skin disease tends to flare
periodically and often accompanied by asthma or hay fever. Symptoms include thickened,
cracked, scaly skin or raised bumps that may leak fluid and crust over when
scratched. The physician usually prescribed corticosteroid cream or ointment and sometimes antihistamine
drugs to control the itching and help repair the skin.
Alopecia areata is a common condition
that affects the integumentary system that results in baldness or hair loss.
This autoimmune disorder often use powerful anti-inflammatory drugs that can
suppress the immune system. Most commonly, corticosteroids is used to treat
alopecia areata. The route of administration are local injections, taken orally
or by topical ointment application.
It is true! Contaminated groundwater is very difficult and sometimes impossible to purify!
1. all of the above
2. Very cost efficient
3. BMI girth measurement
4. all of the above
5. false
6. BIA
7. True
8. False
9. True
10.False
A staff nurse is someone who didn't go to college for nursing, and a registered nurse went to college for it.
Answer:
Levofloxacin is an effective drug for treating prostatitis because is an antibiotic.
Explanation:
Prostatitis is an inflammation of the prostate —a gland in the male genitourinary system— which may be due to a bacterial infection and should therefore be treated with antibiotics.
The germs that cause prostatitis are common bacteria, with levofloxacin being one of the antibiotic therapies of choice. <u>Levofloxacin is a fluroquinolone-type antibiotic</u> with a broad spectrum of action against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria.
The other options are not correct because levofloxacin:
- <em>Is not a </em><u><em>vasodilator</em></u><em>.</em>
- <em>Is not a phosphodiesterase-5 (</em><u><em>PDE-5)</em></u><em> inhibitor, as sildenafil.</em>
- <em>Is not an </em><u><em>androgen agonist,</em></u><em> as Dihydrotestosterone.</em>
