Texas Indoor Air Quality Consultants Help Identify Asthma Triggers in Homes, Schools and Offices

In the United States, asthma affects approximately 25 million people, including 7 million children according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that in 2010, asthma caused 14.2 million visits to physician offices and the following year resulted in 3,345 deaths.....

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Asthma plan reduces problems

“Asthma can be very tricky to treat in young children.  They have difficulty expressing their symptoms, which can grow severe enough to merit hospitalization,” says Dr. Paola Portela, pediatrician in the Woodridge Clinic.....

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Researchers dismiss causal link between antibiotics treatment and childhood asthma

In a new register study in the scientific journal BMJ, researchers at Karolinska Institutet are able to dismiss previous claims that there is a link between the increased use of antibiotics in society and a coinciding rise in childhood asthma. The study includes half a million children and shows that exposure to antibiotics during pregnancy or early in life does not appear to increase the risk of asthma.....

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