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Record W4247552794 · doi:10.32598/hms.27.4.3436.1

Effectiveness of the Eucalyptus Inhalation on the Upper Respiratory Tract Infections of 5-15 Years Old Children

2021· article· en· W4247552794 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueQuarterly of Horizon of Medical Sciences · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
TopicPsidium guajava Extracts and Applications
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineEucalyptus oilIncenseEucalyptusRespiratory tract infectionsPneumoniaRespiratory systemRespiratory tractSinusitisOtitisInhalationBronchitisUpper respiratory tract infectionAsthmaInternal medicinePediatricsSurgeryAnesthesiaImmunology

Abstract

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Aims: Humans have long used plant extracts to relieve the symptoms of various diseases. This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of Eucalyptus in treating upper respiratory infections in children aged 5 to 15 years. Methods & Materials: A case-control study was conducted on the children aged 5-15 years who were referred to the clinics of Zahedan Medical University, Zahedan City, Iran, in 2018-19. A total of 208 children were examined in two groups: case patients diagnosed with an acute upper respiratory infection and control patients matched to the case group. To prepare Eucalyptus incense, 2 drops of Eucalyptus oil were mixed in 750 mL of hot water. In the case group, Eucalyptus incense was prescribed every 3 hours for 15 minutes for 3 days. Also, in the control group, just water vapor was prescribed. Finally, the patients of both groups were evaluated by the researcher on the third day, and the information was entered into the Canadian Acute Respiratory Illness Flu Scale (CARIFS) questionnaire. Then the data were analyzed in SPSS v. 22. Findings: The current study showed that Eucalyptus fumigation significantly improved patients’ symptoms in all upper respiratory tract infections such as cold (P=0.016), rhinitis (P=0.032), sinusitis (P=0.028), pharyngitis (P=0.043), otitis (P=0.046) and laryngotracheitis (P=0.014). Conclusion: Eucalyptus incense generally causes clinical improvement in children with upper respiratory tract infections. As a result, it is possible to use this substance with other treatments according to the patients’ clinical conditions.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.545
Threshold uncertainty score0.572

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.071
GPT teacher head0.412
Teacher spread0.341 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it