Vicks VapoRub study: incomplete case report and misleading publicity

Chest. 2009 Aug;136(2):650; author reply 650-1. doi: 10.1378/chest.09-0324.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Comment
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Administration, Topical
  • Drug Combinations
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Plant Extracts / therapeutic use*
  • Remission, Spontaneous
  • Respiratory Tract Infections / diagnosis*
  • Respiratory Tract Infections / therapy*
  • Risk Assessment
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Severity of Illness Index
  • Skin Absorption / drug effects
  • Terpenes / therapeutic use*
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Drug Combinations
  • Plant Extracts
  • Terpenes
  • camphor, cedar leaf oil, eucalyptus oil, menthol, myristica oil, terebinth oil, thymol drug combination