Effect of Antibiotics on Tissue Cultures of Human Skin

Abstract

LARYNGOTRACHEOBRONCHITIS IN CHILDREN ME,drugs may in fact, by preventing the growth of secondary bacterial invaders, postpone the bacterial liquefaction of the tenacious secretion.Treatment should be directed primarily to the relief of anoxia, the liquefaction of mucus, and the mechanical removal of tenacious secretion.Summary A study was made of 35 children dying of acute laryngotracheobronchitis over a four-year period in Sheffield.Twenty-nine children died of an exudative affection of the lower respiratory tree.Laryngotracheobronchitis would appear to be a more common cause of death in children between the ages of 6 weeks and 2 years than the notifiable infectious diseases.The aetiology of the condition is not known, and the infection is not necessarily specific.Death seems to be due chiefly to mechanical suffoca- tion by abnormal mucous secretion.Treatment should be directed to maintaining an air- way.Antibacterial drugs are unlikely to be effective in the early stages of the disease and may possibly postpone recovery.It is a pleasure to acknowledge the interest and advice of Dr.