Smoking and Asthma
Secondhand smoke is bad for everyone’s health, but even worse for the millions of children and adults with asthma: If you have asthma, any exposure to cigarette smoke can lead to an asthma attack, and frequent exposure to cigarette smoke can make asthma symptoms even worse.
Cigarettes “do not cause asthma, in the sense…
Archive for June, 2011
Smoking and Asthma
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
What is food sensitivity?
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
The inability to tolerate foods and environmental factors, also known as sensitivity or intolerance, induces chronic activation of the innate immune system and gives rise to inflammatory processes, which includes excess production of reactive oxygen species and the release of preformed and newly synthesized mediators of inflammation.
This inflammation has been linked to countless chronic conditions,…
Preventing an Asthma Attack While Traveling
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
People with asthma may imagine themselves of sipping coffee along the boulevards of Paris or hiking in the Australian Outback. But all too often such tantalizing travel dreams are spoiled by the fear of an asthma attack occurring far from home or emergency medical help. And there’s probably good reason to be cautious: The World…
Natural Allergy Relief
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Relieve Allergies the Natural Way
If spring and fall send your seasonal allergies into a spin, many experts say look to Mother Nature for relief that can be as comforting and easy as a day at the beach.
Whether it’s the long-awaited change of winter into spring, or the quiet fading of summer into fall, for many…
When to See an Asthma Specialist
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
When you’re feeling sick, the first place you may go is to your family physician or general practitioner, who can help manage most of your sniffles, aches, and pains. But what if your cough and difficulty breathing are actually symptoms of asthma, and require more expertise and care? It’s time to think about seeing an…
Children’s Allergies
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
An estimated 50 million Americans have some type of allergy. In most people, allergies first appear during infancy or childhood. Allergic disorders rank first among children’s chronic diseases.
Find an allergist to help treat your child’s allergies
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Asthma Treatment: An Overview
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
You and your healthcare provider can decide together about your treatment goals for asthma and what you need to do to control the condition. Treatment for asthma includes:
Avoiding things that bring on your asthma symptoms or that make symptoms worse. Doing so can reduce the amount of medicine you need to control your asthma. Allergy…
Eye Allergy Treatment
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Eye allergies generally occur when the immunity is depressed, or when your eyes are being exposed to new substances that the body system is not able to control.
To get relief for eye allergy, you need to use unconventional ways of treatment. As a matter of fact not so many people favor chemicals and drugs and…
Asthma & Allergy: Are Allergies And Asthma Related
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
When we hear of allergy and asthma studies, we frequently discover them lumped together. Is there truly a connection between allergies and asthma? To obtain to the answer to this, we should initial discover what allergies and asthma really are.
Allergies are immune program reactions to issues that other people would discover harmless. Particular foods, pollen,…
Asthma: Too Many Kids Getting Antibiotics for Asthma
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
Although guidelines don’t recommend antibiotics for asthma, almost 1 million children with the respiratory condition are prescribed the medications each year in the United States, a new study finds.
“We are trying to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions, and this suggests that we as pediatricians are prescribing them way too often,” said lead researcher Dr. Ian M….
