https://alandove.com/tags/fda/ Recent content in FDA on Alan Dove, Ph.D. Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Alan Dove Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://alandove.com/posts/2009/2009-01-15-from-jamaica-ginger-to-vicks-vaporub/ Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://alandove.com/posts/2009/2009-01-15-from-jamaica-ginger-to-vicks-vaporub/ A new paper in the journal CHEST presents the case of a toddler who went into respiratory distress after receiving a smear of Vicks VapoRub under her nose. To figure out what happened, the researchers replicated the treatment in ferrets, whose respiratory systems are a good model for humans. The results were not exactly consistent with the Vicks “Breathe free” slogan: [VapoRub] stimulates mucin secretion and [mucociliary transport] in the … inflamed ferret airway.