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.
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Archive for August, 2010
Occupational Asthma: Your Work Caused It
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Detergent Allergy
Tuesday, 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
Tuesday, 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
Tuesday, 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
Tuesday, 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
Tuesday, 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…
Ozone and Nicotine a Bad Combination for Asthma
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Another reason for including asthma on the list of potential health risks posed by secondhand tobacco smoke, especially for non-smokers, has been uncovered. Furthermore, the practice of using ozone to remove the smell of tobacco smoke from indoor environments, including hotel rooms and the interiors of vehicles, is probably a bad idea.
A new study by…
Eating meat may cause severe allergic reactions in some people
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Meat allergies may be much more common than previously thought and may even induce potentially fatal anaphylaxis in some people, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Virginia and presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology in New Orleans.
The researchers tested three groups of…
Allergy Shots Cut Asthma but Carry Risk
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Asthma patients need less medication and show reductions in symptoms following allergy desensitization treatment, though local and systemic reactions appear relatively common, an updated Cochrane review found.
In a meta-analysis of 88 trials of several different kinds of allergy immunotherapies in asthma patients, Michael Abramson, MD, of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues found that…
Modern Western Diet Leads To Allergies In Children
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
A team of researchers from Florence University in Italy have found that the modern Western diet of high-sugar, low-fiber processed foods is contributing to allergies and other problems not seen in those who eat more primitive diets. According to study results, junk foods alter beneficial gut bacteria, which in turn disrupts normal digestive function.
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