Eat, drink and be merry. And thank your epiglottis, themarvelous flap of cartilage in your throat that makes the first twoacts possible. Make that all three: If you couldn’t eat or drink,you wouldn’t ...

RECENT reviews of acute respiratory disease in childhood 1,2 have failed to emphasize the importance of epiglottitis. Unless physicians are cognizant of the clinical features of this rapidly ...

Epiglottitis, or infection and inflammation of the epiglottis, is mainly caused by Haemophilus influenza type b and commonly affects children between ages 2 and 7 and adults with a depressed immune ...

Sore throat seen in most cases Difficulty in swallowing also seen in most cases High fever often reaching 40 degree Celsius in children and difficulty in breathing. Breathing may be accompanied by ...

A 4-year-old boy developed epiglottitis with fever, sore throat and inspiratory stridor over the course of an afternoon. By direct epiglottic culture group G Streptococcus was identified as the ...

If you're a fan of comedian Sarah Silverman, you likely heard about her terrifying health scare last week — according to a post on her Facebook page, she was laid up in the intensive care unit being ...

Comedian Sarah Silverman has indicated that she is "insanely lucky to be alive" after being hospitalized in the intensive care unit (ICU) with epiglottitis. You may be asking, hospitalized with what?

Sarah Silverman almost died last week from a terribly unfunny freak throat infection, but true to form, the comedian found a way to make it both hilarious and thought provoking. File this under ...

A 4-year-old boy developed sore throat and fever over the course of a day. By evening his temperature was 40°C, and he had developed low pitched inspiratory stridor. On arrival at the emergency room ...