Abstract: Legionellosis is a modern environmental infectious disease which may affect normal and immunocompromised hosts. It is a systemic infectious disease primarily involving the lungs with various extrapulmonary manifestations. Although there are no symptoms specific for legionnaires’ disease, some atypical signs and laboratory findings such as fever, diarrhoea, abdominal discomfort, mental status changes, hyponatraemia, relative bradycardia may suggest the correct clinical diagnosis. Legionella infections are one of the common cause of community –aquired pneumonias and Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 is responsible for 70% of legionnaires’ cases. In many studies those patients who required intensive care unit admission the severity and mortality rate was higher when compared with pneumonias with other origin.

Most of the time we are talking about the consequence of the imbalance due to exaggerated energy input, that is, obesity, or about the different treatment methods of it (diet, medicine, surgery). At the same time there is less talk about undernutrition, although it may lead to prolonged recuperation, higher risk of complication, higher risk of death and consequently higher costs. In the article you can read about the causes that lead to undernutrition, about its definition, and about certain forms of nutrition, roborating at certain illnesses.

The most often occuring opthalmologic disease in the general practitioner’s consulting room is conjunctivitis. Within this group the great majority are those caused by bacteria and allergic reactions. Although some years ago only a few eyedrops were available, nowadays we have a great variety to choose from. Plenty of new products have recently appeared on the market of antibiotics and antiallergics and their application results in many cases to the more efficient cure of the disease. At the same time some old standing and well proved eyedrops still take part in the modern therapy.