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Health Tip: Inhaler or Nebulizer? (HealthDay)
Some babies or children who need asthma medicine start out on inhalers, others on nebulizers.
Mar-22-2006
02:0:50 PM
Health Tip: When Asthmatics Should See a Doctor (HealthDay)
It's only natural that parents of children with asthma worry about the condition flaring up.
Mar-21-2006
09:0:49 PM
Reduce Indoor Allergens, Reduce Asthma Attacks
Minor adjustments to your everyday routine can yield enormous results when it comes to preventing asthma attacks. How you ask. Let's look at just one kind of asthma. Extrinsic, or allergic, asthma is instigated by environmental triggers. Most childhood asthma falls in the extrinsic category. It is more frequent in boys than girls. Asthma is the most common childhood illness, accounting for 10 million lost school days annually. Asthma affects 5 million children in the U.S. Common culprits are
Mar-21-2006
12:0:0 AM
- Richard Douglas
How To Recognize Asthma Symptoms?
Asthma is a continuing inflammatory disorder that makes airways (bronchial tubes) especially tender to irritants, and this is characterized by problems in breathing.
Asthma symptoms include:
* Coughing. Coughing in individuals with asthma is frequently worse at night or early in the morning, making it difficult for them to sleep.
* Wheezing. Wheezing is a whistling or squeaky noise when you breathe.
* A tight perception in the chest. This can feel like someone is squeezi
Mar-18-2006
12:0:0 AM
- Bjorn Gutter
Weight May Influence Asthma Care (HealthDay)
Weight may have a bearing on asthma care: Researchers say beclomethasone, an inhaled steroid, may be better for normal-weight people asthmatics, while an alternate bronchodilator called montelukast sodium (brand name Singulair) may be better for the overweight and obese.
Mar-08-2006
12:1:10 AM
Healthy Pregnancy: Pilates Helps Expecting Mothers From Pregnancy Thru Post Partum
Most people think of Pilates as a new form of exercise because of its recent surge of popularity in the fitness and healthcare industry. In reality, Joseph Pilates invented about 80 years ago by.
Pilates was a sickly child with asthma. To help fight his illness and build his strength, he experimented with various mind-body disciplines and later became an accomplished skier, diver, gymnast, and boxer. While in internment during WWI in England, he taught fellow interns his concepts a
Mar-07-2006
05:0:0 AM
Dealing With Asthma Triggers (KidsHealth.org)
A person with asthma has chronic inflammation of the airways in the lungs,
which is aggravated by asthma triggers, so named because they bring on asthma
symptoms. Triggers are substances, weather conditions, or activities that are
harmless to most people, but can lead to coughing, wheezing, and shortness of
breath in people with asthma. They don't cause asthma, but can lead to both
short-term and long-term asthma symptoms.
Mar-06-2006
10:55:1 AM
Kids' Asthma Linked to Maternal Nutrition (HealthDay)
The link between maternal health and childhood asthma is becoming clearer.
Mar-05-2006
12:0:37 AM
Everyday Asthma Control Secrets
Asthma control is the secret to living comfortably with the disease. You must understand early symptoms of you expect reliable asthma attack relief.
An important tool for asthma control is a "peak flow meter".
This meter is a hand-held device that measures how fast you can discharge air from your lungs. This is called your peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR). When you measure your peak flow regularly you will be able to identify an oncoming asthma attack.
To effectively use a peak f
Mar-04-2006
12:0:0 AM
- Mark Walters
Treatment may help asthma sufferers
According to research at Washington University in St. Louis, a two-drug treatment may some day help with restoring healthy breathing in people ill with asthma and chronic bronchitis.
Dr Michael Holtzman and other researchers discovered that some lining cells from the lungs air passages are able to change into another cell type, which leads to the overproduction of mucus in the airways. It was observed in mice and patients suffering from those disorders.
The researchers think th
Mar-03-2006
05:0:0 AM
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