[Effect of environmental humidity on the epistaxis of patients with acute thrombocytopenia].
The effect of humidification of the environment was studied on the frequency and severeness of spistaxes in a group of 16 children. A control group was composed of 18 children with the idea that they were similar, but the hematologic conditions of the latter group were more unfavorable. A decrease of epistaxis was not found; there was a minimal prolongation of the days between one and the next nosebleeding picture. A definite decrease in the severeness of bleeding was found in the second group as judged by a lesser necessity of transfusions.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones; D001772:Blood Cell Count; D001792:Blood Platelets; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004844:Epistaxis / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006813:Humidity; D008297:Male; D013921:Thrombocytopenia / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy
D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones
Efecto de la humidificación del ambiente sobre las epistaxis en pacientes con trombocitopenia grave