prophylactic therapy
prophylactic treatment

This kind of treatment is called prophylactic therapy.

Clinical data shows that the treatment of election is the abrupt drugs withdrawal, followed by starting a prophylactic therapy.

In their study, prophylactic therapy for headaches helped cure Phantosmia in most of the patients.

It is also used in prophylactic therapy against Neisseria meningitidis (meningococcal) infection.

In prophylactic therapy, 100 mg (adult dose) of Doxycycline should be given every day during exposure to malaria.

Preventive therapy or prophylactic therapy is a treatment that is intended to prevent a medical condition from occurring.

This predisposes the patient to fungal and some viral infections necessitating appropriate prophylactic therapy.

People with substantial immunosuppression are also advised to receive prophylactic therapy for toxoplasmosis and Cryptococcus meningitis.

Clinical trials proved the effectiveness of prophylactic therapy for preventing perinatal transmission in women who are not treated until the time of delivery (11).

Prophylactic therapy for menstrual migraine should be tried for at least 3 menstruation cycles to see if that kind of treatment works before it is stopped.

It is not intended for the prophylactic therapy of migraine or for use in the management of hemiplegic or basilar migraine.

Children whose HIV infection status is unknown require early diagnostic testing and prophylactic therapy to prevent PCP pending determination of their status.

Infected children require follow-up care to determine the need for prophylactic therapy and antiretroviral treatment and to monitor disorders in growth and development that often occur before age 24 months.

Discovery of a disease-causing mutation in a family can inform "at-risk" individuals as to whether they are at higher risk for cancer and may prompt individualized prophylactic therapy including mastectomy and removal of the ovaries.

Dr. Harley expressed hope that the new findings would lead other teams to conduct studies to identify patients who might benefit from prophylactic therapy to keep them from developing some of the most serious manifestations of the disease.

The goal is to identify HIV-infected women or their infants as soon as possible because the efficacy of prophylactic therapy is greatest if given during or as soon after exposure as possible (i.e., within 12 hours of birth).

Because PCP occurs most often in perinatally infected children at ages 3--6 months (65), effective prevention requires that children born to HIV-infected mothers be identified promptly, preferably through maternal testing, so that PCP prophylactic therapy can be initiated at age 6 weeks.

On the basis of these results, we conclude that children should be screened in the neonatal period for sickle cell hemoglobinopathy and that those with sickle cell anemia should receive prophylactic therapy with oral penicillin by four months of age to decrease the morbidity and mortality associated with pneumococcal septicemia.

Certainly there are potential benefits, including prophylactic treatment and the possible reduction in high-risk behavior.

When he came downstairs again, he had to go through prophylactic treatment.

"In an ideal world, you only want to give prophylactic treatment to those exposed.

It was introduced into clinical practice in 1947 for the prophylactic treatment of malaria.

Prophylactic treatment is recommended for travelers to those countries.

Where such grazing is not available, prophylactic treatments should be repeated until autumn or marketing.

The prophylactic treatment regime is highly variable and individually determined.

Prophylactic treatments are also used to care for preterm infants.

However, long term prophylactic treatment of epilepsy has considerable drawbacks.

Prophylactic treatment is helpful in a different way.

Preventive group therapy has proven effective as a prophylactic treatment for postpartum depression.

Prophylactic treatments can also be used when trying to prevent Aermonas hydrophila.

Women with antiphospholipid syndrome should have an additional low-dose prophylactic treatment of aspirin.

Since 2000, four deaths from rabies have occurred; none of these cases had received any post-exposure prophylactic treatment.

In both cases, prophylactic treatment 24 hours pre-radiation was more effective than post-radiation treatment.

Prophylactic treatment of cytomegalovirus infection with traditional herbs.

Tricyclic antidepressants have been long established as highly efficacious prophylactic treatments.

In addition, short-term transitional medications (such as steroids) may be used while prophylactic treatment is instituted and adjusted.

Transmission rates from mother to child have been reduced to less than 5 percent from 25 percent with prophylactic treatments.

Prophylactic treatments include twice daily topical application of diluted glycolic acid.

LI research also has suggested techniques that may be efficacious in the prophylactic treatment of certain fears and phobias.

Prophylactic treatment with pediculicides is not recommended.

For prophylactic treatments levamisole, the benzimidazoles, pro-benzimidazoles and ivermectin may be used.

As with human medicine, much veterinary work is concerned with prophylactic treatment, in order to prevent problems occurring in the future.

Prophylactic treatment consists in prevention of suppuration.