You could be 30 or 40 years old and still not show symptoms of asthma. Yet gradually your lungs are changing, and the cause is related to your work. Now you have asthma, and all symptoms that go with it.
What I’m describing here is one of the more recently defined types of asthma called Occupational Asthma.
The…
Occupational Asthma: Your Work Caused It
August 31st, 2010
Detergent Allergy
August 31st, 2010
You get a detergent allergy when your body reacts adversely to a specific component of the detergent. Gather more relevant information related to this topic from this article.
There are many people who are allergic towards laundry detergents. They get it when their skin comes in direct contact with a particular detergent while using it. Those…
Hopkins Researcher Has Major Asthma Finding
August 31st, 2010
One in 15 people in the US have asthma, but in our nation’s inner cities, it’s one in four who have the condition that makes it so hard to breathe. Mary Bubala reports a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center has isolated a major reason why.
Six-year-old Collin MacLaurin lives just west of downtown Baltimore…
Mold’s Peak Season is Late Summer and Fall: Reduce Your Exposure
August 31st, 2010
Allergy News Wire is reporting that Mold allergies are now rampant. Mold allergy typically increase during late summer and fall months.
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) the, “Number of ambulatory care visits (to physician offices, hospital outpatient departments, and emergency departments) with a primary diagnosis of allergic rhinitis: 13.1 million.” With numbers this…
Study Points To Genetic Driver Of Severe Asthma
August 31st, 2010
Scientists have identified a genetic basis for determining the severity of allergic asthma in experimental models of the disease.
The study may help in the search for future therapeutic strategies to fight a growing medical problem that currently lacks effective treatments, researchers from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center report in the Aug. 29 Nature Immunology.
The prevalence…
In Cystic Fibrosis Patients, Vitamin D May Treat And Prevent Allergic Reaction To Mold
August 31st, 2010
Vitamin D may be an effective therapy to treat and even prevent allergy to a common mold that can cause severe complications for patients with cystic fibrosis and asthma, according to researchers from Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Louisiana State University School of Medicine.
Results of the…
