FDNS 4600 1st Edition Lecture 34 Outline of Past Lecture I II III IV V VI Comparison of Web Site Information on Products with Known Safety Warnings Consumerlabs com Contamination and Adulteration Helpful Dietary Supplements Opinions so far Kava Case Study Outline of Current Lecture I Echinacea Case Study Current Lecture I Echinacea Case Study a Experimental Research RCT i Echinacea in children 1 What does it do a Help treat cold not prevent 2 Why study children a More susceptible to colds 3 What do we know in children a Not many studies or research because of parents opinion 4 Not much so good rationale for a research study b Research Questions i Does Echinacea decrease the duration of URI in children by at least 1 5 to 2 days ii How would you do design this study 1 Permission from parents 2 recruitment pediatrician school hospital iii In research studies you have to be very specific in your terms This study focused on duration and amount c Results i Age is similar gender is similar number of colds is the same ii Children in day care is important to know because of exposure to colds These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute iii Children in households with smokers is important to know because of the respiratory system iv Children with siblings is important to know because of exposure v Overall the groups were very similar vi Looking for P values with 05 to be statistically different 1 The only one that came close was days of fever at 09 vii In conclusion with the data from this study Echinacea does not help with cold treatments d Safety i The Echinacea group has more adverse effects overall ii Most of them were more than doubled in the Echinacea group iii Two children in the Echinacea group had stridor That is a bad cough
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