Taking action against asthma

If your child has asthma, they are among almost 10 per cent of Australian children living with the condition. Caring for a child with asthma raises many questions for parents and carers – in addition to concerns about their general health and wellbeing, parents may wonder if their child can have an active life or participate in their favourite sports.....

Read more here: essentialkids.com.au

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Respiratory Health Association: May is Asthma Awareness Month

Association exceeded our goal and this school year has already educated more than 1,000 students living with asthma through Fight Asthma Now© and we're not done.....

Read more here: cleantheair.org

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Antibiotics might not be behind your kid's asthma

A long-held theory that antibiotic use in the first year of a child's life can cause asthma may have been disproved. A study published in The Lancet today explains that although children who use antibiotics are indeed at increased risk for asthma, the antibiotics themselves might not be at fault. Rather, the reason for the connection might have to do with the presence of genetic variants on a specific region of chromosome 17.....

Read more here: theverge.com