Drug-treated salt helps limb swelling
Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:53 AM EST
... Researchers in India say lymphatic filariasis, which causes limbs and genitals to fill with fluid and swell, could be treated by treating salt with a drug. ...
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- Dietary Sodium
- Artificial Limbs
- Drug Safety
- Prescription Drugs
- Drug Side Effects
- Confusion and changes in mental status may develop if the condition is not treated.
- Fatigue and shortness of breath (if poor heart function isn't treated)
- Drug Abuse
- Drug Information
- Prescription Drug Abuse
- Prescription Drugs Abuse
- Drinking Water
- Swelling
- Brain swelling (cerebral edema)
- High altitude cerebral edema (brain swelling)
- Life-threatening airway blockage (if swelling occurs in the throat)
- Worsening of the affected limb
- Phantom Limb Pain
- Periodic Limb Movements in Sleep
- Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy

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