Asthma, allergies linked to indoor air quality

Markers, cleaning products, and furniture: along with other unlikely household items, these three may be harming your respiratory health.
That’s according to Bonnie Hinds, environmental health and housing specialist at University of Tennessee. She delivered a presentation on indoor air quality at Music City Center on Tuesday as part of an early education conference.....

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Asthma

Asthma is a lung disease that makes it harder to move air in and out of your lungs. Asthma causes your airways to narrow, swell and produce extra mucus. This can make it difficult to breathe and can cause coughing, wheezing (a whistling sound when you breathe), chest tightness and shortness of breath.....

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Prevalence Trends for Asthma and Asthma Attacks

Among noninstitutionalized adults, 18.9 million (8.2%, or 1 in 12) experienced asthma in 2009, as did 7.1 million (9.5%, or 1 in 11) children. More than half (52.2%) of children with asthma were diagnosed within the past 5 years. Patients with asthma more often sought professional assistance at a physician’s office (14.2 million) than at an emergency department (1.8 million) or hospital outpatient clinic (1.3 million). Routine visits to a physician were made by nearly three-quarters of children with asthma (72.8%). The average length of hospital stay for asthma treatment was 3.6 days, and asthma claimed nine lives each day. The CDC estimated that asthma cost $56 billion per year, and the average annual cost of care for a child with asthma was $1,039.....

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