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Medications
… medication is used to treat certain parasitic roundworm infections. Curing parasitic infections helps to improve your quality of life. In people … with weakened defense (immune) systems, curing roundworm infections can reduce the risk of developing a severe or …
Medications
… health needs. Uses This medication is used to treat eye infections. Ciprofloxacin belongs to a class of drugs called … of bacteria. This medication treats only bacterial eye infections. It will not work for other types of eye infections. Unnecessary use or overuse of any antibiotic can …
Medications
… This medication is used to treat certain types of outer ear infections. It helps to reduce swelling, itching, redness, … treats only certain types of bacterial and fungal ear infections. It will not work for other types of ear infections. Unnecessary use or overuse of any antibiotic can …
Medications
… is used to treat a wide variety of serious bacterial infections. It is an antibiotic that works by stopping the … growth of bacteria. This antibiotic only treats bacterial infections. It will not work for viral infections (such as common cold, flu). Unnecessary use or …
Medications
… young children from Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) infection. Hib is a bacterial infection that can cause serious illness, including brain infection (meningitis). Children younger than age 5 are at …
Medications
… Clindamycin is used to treat a wide variety of bacterial infections. It is an antibiotic that works by stopping the … growth of bacteria. This antibiotic treats only bacterial infections. It will not work for virus infections (such as common cold, flu). Using any antibiotic …
Medications
… used in certain people to treat outbreaks of herpes simplex infection of the skin (such as on the genitals), mucous … brain. It is also used in certain people to treat shingles infection. The viruses that cause these infections live in the body quietly until an outbreak …
Medical tests
… and biopsy are often done to find a blood problem or an infection. They also may be used to find out if a cancer has … much it has spread. This helps plan cancer treatment. Find infections or tumours that may start in or spread to the bone marrow. If you have an infection, a culture and sensitivity test of the bone marrow …
HealthLinkBC files
… Rabies vaccine provides long lasting protection against infection from the rabies virus. The vaccine is made from … is an extremely small risk of passing some blood-borne infections through the use of RabIg. Since blood screening … testing began, there have been no reports of blood-borne infections such as HIV, hepatitis B or hepatitis C in people …
Medical tests
… to check for an injury or damage from conditions such as an infection, arthritis , bone growths (tumours), or other bone … Find changes in your bones caused by conditions such as an infection, arthritis, bone growths (tumours), osteoarthritis … such as fragments of metal or glass, are present. No infection and no abnormal growths (tumours) are present. The …
