Keeping asthma symptoms at bay
Asthma symptoms, which include coughing, wheezing, and chest tightness, are common in an asthma attack. Asthma is a disease of the airways in the lungs. Its symptoms are caused by inflammation, which makes the airways red, swollen, narrower and extra-sensitive to irritants. Asthma symptoms range from minor to severe and vary from person to person......
Read more here: dhakatribune.com
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Waikenda: I had asthma attack
NAIROBI, KENYA: The Director of Immigration Jane Waikenda says she collapsed at the offices of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission ( EACC) following an “ asthma attack”.....
Read more here: standardmedia.co.ke
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Health Watch: Asthma in kids
Every Thursday night our team of local experts brings you important information that you can use to keep you and your family healthy. This week we have the kids in mind with Doctor Cara Hamilton from Black Hills Pediatrics.....
Read more here: blackhillsfox.com
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Friday, January 10, 2014
How an asthma sufferer has become a triathlete
An asthmatic who has defied the odds and competed in triathlons wants to raise awareness of the condition.
Gavin Dolman has battled with asthma since the age of two and, at 32, wants to help others, raise awareness and educate people on the everyday trials of suffering from the long-term health condition......
Read more here: ashbournenewstelegraph.co.uk
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How to Survive the Flu When Your Child Has Asthma
For parents, the start of the cold weather usually means the start of flu season. When your child has asthma, it can cause even greater anxiety in you, as you worry if the complications that arise from this common condition could cause a breathing emergency. It helps to know what exactly the flu is, what symptoms you should watch out for in an asthmatic child, and what to do about the flu. Lots of controversy exists over the use of vaccines, but children who are asthmatic can’t afford to be without the protection of an annual flu shot......
Read more here: livingwithasthma.net
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Relvar Ellipta launched for asthma and COPD patients
GlaxoSmithKline has officially launched Relvar Ellipta, its once-daily inhaler for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients.
A combination of fluticasone furoate and the novel long-acting beta-2 agonist (LABA) vilanterol, the new inhaler can now be ordered in the UK.....
Read more here: pjonline.com
An asthmatic who has defied the odds and competed in triathlons wants to raise awareness of the condition.
Gavin Dolman has battled with asthma since the age of two and, at 32, wants to help others, raise awareness and educate people on the everyday trials of suffering from the long-term health condition......
Read more here: ashbournenewstelegraph.co.uk
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How to Survive the Flu When Your Child Has Asthma
For parents, the start of the cold weather usually means the start of flu season. When your child has asthma, it can cause even greater anxiety in you, as you worry if the complications that arise from this common condition could cause a breathing emergency. It helps to know what exactly the flu is, what symptoms you should watch out for in an asthmatic child, and what to do about the flu. Lots of controversy exists over the use of vaccines, but children who are asthmatic can’t afford to be without the protection of an annual flu shot......
Read more here: livingwithasthma.net
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Relvar Ellipta launched for asthma and COPD patients
GlaxoSmithKline has officially launched Relvar Ellipta, its once-daily inhaler for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients.
A combination of fluticasone furoate and the novel long-acting beta-2 agonist (LABA) vilanterol, the new inhaler can now be ordered in the UK.....
Read more here: pjonline.com
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Can eating produce help with asthma?
Gut bacteria is a fascinating topic, especially as researchers find that what goes on in your gut really does affect your health. While perhaps not an everyday consideration for many of us, the 100 trillion bacteria in our gut can have the power to bring us better – or worse – health. That’s a good reason to consider how to treat them well.....
Read more here: mnn.com
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Adding fiber to your child’s diet may reduce asthma symptoms
According to a new study, including more fiber in your child's diet may relieve asthma symptoms. The scientists found that mice who were fed a low fiber diet were more likely to have asthma. The study was done on mice so it may not be generalizable to children, however, a cross-cultural review has shown that countries with low fiber diets also had more incidents of allergic asthma......
Read more here: blogher.com
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Reports from Amgen Provide New Insights into Asthma
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Clinical Trials Week -- Research findings on Obstructive Lung Diseases are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting out of Thousand Oaks, California, by NewsRx editors, research stated, "IL-17 signaling has been implicated in development and persistence of asthma. Cytokine-targeted strategies blocking IL-17 receptor signaling may be beneficial in asthma treatment.".....
Read more here: 4-traders.com
Gut bacteria is a fascinating topic, especially as researchers find that what goes on in your gut really does affect your health. While perhaps not an everyday consideration for many of us, the 100 trillion bacteria in our gut can have the power to bring us better – or worse – health. That’s a good reason to consider how to treat them well.....
Read more here: mnn.com
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Adding fiber to your child’s diet may reduce asthma symptoms
According to a new study, including more fiber in your child's diet may relieve asthma symptoms. The scientists found that mice who were fed a low fiber diet were more likely to have asthma. The study was done on mice so it may not be generalizable to children, however, a cross-cultural review has shown that countries with low fiber diets also had more incidents of allergic asthma......
Read more here: blogher.com
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Reports from Amgen Provide New Insights into Asthma
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Clinical Trials Week -- Research findings on Obstructive Lung Diseases are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting out of Thousand Oaks, California, by NewsRx editors, research stated, "IL-17 signaling has been implicated in development and persistence of asthma. Cytokine-targeted strategies blocking IL-17 receptor signaling may be beneficial in asthma treatment.".....
Read more here: 4-traders.com
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Polar temps a health threat to kids with asthma
ATLANTA, Ga. — The frigid metro Atlanta temperatures Monday and Tuesday are a real health threat to children with asthma, doctors say.
Channel 2's Diana Davis reports it can make getting a breath difficult enough to land them in the hospital. Santika Lawrence, 14, has been in the hospital four times for asthma attacks. Cold weather makes her condition worse.....
Read more here: wsbtv.com
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New once-a-day inhaler that could ease the suffering of asthma patients is approved for use in Britain
The first once-a-day inhaler for asthma sufferers has been approved for use in Britain.
The new treatment gives 24-hour help to asthmatics, many of whom are currently failing to keep the condition under control.....
Read more here: dailymail.co.uk
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Asthma: Altering diet may ease symptoms
Fruits, vegetables and whole-grains might be an unlikely treatment for asthma according to animal studies.
Tests on mice, published in the journal Nature Medicine, showed that a high-fibre diet could reduce inflammation in the lungs.....
Read more here: graphic.com.gh
ATLANTA, Ga. — The frigid metro Atlanta temperatures Monday and Tuesday are a real health threat to children with asthma, doctors say.
Channel 2's Diana Davis reports it can make getting a breath difficult enough to land them in the hospital. Santika Lawrence, 14, has been in the hospital four times for asthma attacks. Cold weather makes her condition worse.....
Read more here: wsbtv.com
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New once-a-day inhaler that could ease the suffering of asthma patients is approved for use in Britain
The first once-a-day inhaler for asthma sufferers has been approved for use in Britain.
The new treatment gives 24-hour help to asthmatics, many of whom are currently failing to keep the condition under control.....
Read more here: dailymail.co.uk
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Asthma: Altering diet may ease symptoms
Fruits, vegetables and whole-grains might be an unlikely treatment for asthma according to animal studies.
Tests on mice, published in the journal Nature Medicine, showed that a high-fibre diet could reduce inflammation in the lungs.....
Read more here: graphic.com.gh
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Hispanic caregivers satisfied with health care for asthma symptoms
When it comes to health care and Hispanics, there are many disparities when regarding access and quality of care, but there is one area of healthcare where Hispanics feel health care providers do a good job: treating children with asthma......
Read more here: voxxi.com
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Dietary Fiber Can Protect Against Asthma
In the West, an increasing number of people have developed allergic asthma in the past fifty years. But dietary habits have also changed during the same period: fruit and vegetables are playing an ever smaller role in people's diets. Now, new results suggest that these two developments are not merely simultaneous, they are also causally linked......
Read more here: biosciencetechnology.com
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Can Ginger Help With Asthma?
The Ache: Some 26 million Americans suffer from asthma—a chronic inflammation of airways in the lungs that causes coughing, chest tightness, wheezing and shortness of breath, according to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology......
Read more here: online.wsj.com
When it comes to health care and Hispanics, there are many disparities when regarding access and quality of care, but there is one area of healthcare where Hispanics feel health care providers do a good job: treating children with asthma......
Read more here: voxxi.com
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Dietary Fiber Can Protect Against Asthma
In the West, an increasing number of people have developed allergic asthma in the past fifty years. But dietary habits have also changed during the same period: fruit and vegetables are playing an ever smaller role in people's diets. Now, new results suggest that these two developments are not merely simultaneous, they are also causally linked......
Read more here: biosciencetechnology.com
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Can Ginger Help With Asthma?
The Ache: Some 26 million Americans suffer from asthma—a chronic inflammation of airways in the lungs that causes coughing, chest tightness, wheezing and shortness of breath, according to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology......
Read more here: online.wsj.com
Monday, January 6, 2014
Hypnosis Can Help Asthma Sufferers Breathe Easy Again
Asthma affects 1 in 12 people in the United States, with more than half of these people being children. It is a condition in which the airways become inflamed, making breathing difficult. For many sufferers, it’s a lifelong illness that is expensive to treat, and in severe cases, potentially fatal. To complicate matters further, simply knowing this fact can make coping with asthma even worse, because of the stress and fear that associated with this all-too-common illness......
Read more here: drscottlewis.com
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Huntingdon man used cannabis as asthma cure
Asthma sufferer Nazakat Ali turned to cannabis to ease his condition, a court has been told.
Ali, 35, did not like to use inhalers because he thought they were addictive, magistrates at Huntingdon heard.....
Read more here: cambridge-news.co.uk
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Study to look at asthma drug for treating diabetes, obesity
This month, researchers will initiate a human study looking at the asthma drug amlexanox for treatment of diabetes and obesity.....
Read more here: healio.com
Asthma affects 1 in 12 people in the United States, with more than half of these people being children. It is a condition in which the airways become inflamed, making breathing difficult. For many sufferers, it’s a lifelong illness that is expensive to treat, and in severe cases, potentially fatal. To complicate matters further, simply knowing this fact can make coping with asthma even worse, because of the stress and fear that associated with this all-too-common illness......
Read more here: drscottlewis.com
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Huntingdon man used cannabis as asthma cure
Asthma sufferer Nazakat Ali turned to cannabis to ease his condition, a court has been told.
Ali, 35, did not like to use inhalers because he thought they were addictive, magistrates at Huntingdon heard.....
Read more here: cambridge-news.co.uk
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Study to look at asthma drug for treating diabetes, obesity
This month, researchers will initiate a human study looking at the asthma drug amlexanox for treatment of diabetes and obesity.....
Read more here: healio.com
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Asthmatic Personality
Asthma and how it's trained me to live
I've had asthma ever since I was a child, and fortunately as I entered my adult years the severity of its onsets have reduced. Most people know that asthma results in a shortness of breath, but there are two things happening that result in this: Firstly, your bronchioles fill up with mucus, which means that less air can pass through, and secondly, the bronchioles themselves are narrowing, which has the same result. It's like a double whammy of suffocation, and as you're struggling to pull air in for extended periods of time, the muscles all around your chest begin to fatigue and ache.....
Read more here: psychologytoday.com
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Asthma and allergy safe garden
There is nothing like relaxing in your garden to waft away your cares, but what if someone in your home suffers from asthma or other allergies? Then relaxing in the garden is a non-event, unless you choose plants that are safe for asthmatics and allergy sufferers. Here is how to make your garden allergy free.....
Read more here: livinghealthy360.com
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Nitric oxide test for asthma
Definition
An exhaled nitric oxide test is one of several tests that can be used to check for asthma. It involves breathing into a mouthpiece attached to a machine that measures the level of nitric oxide gas in your breath. Nitric oxide is produced by the body normally, but high levels in your breath can mean that your airways are inflamed — a sign of asthma.....
Read more here: mayoclinic.org
Asthma and how it's trained me to live
I've had asthma ever since I was a child, and fortunately as I entered my adult years the severity of its onsets have reduced. Most people know that asthma results in a shortness of breath, but there are two things happening that result in this: Firstly, your bronchioles fill up with mucus, which means that less air can pass through, and secondly, the bronchioles themselves are narrowing, which has the same result. It's like a double whammy of suffocation, and as you're struggling to pull air in for extended periods of time, the muscles all around your chest begin to fatigue and ache.....
Read more here: psychologytoday.com
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Asthma and allergy safe garden
There is nothing like relaxing in your garden to waft away your cares, but what if someone in your home suffers from asthma or other allergies? Then relaxing in the garden is a non-event, unless you choose plants that are safe for asthmatics and allergy sufferers. Here is how to make your garden allergy free.....
Read more here: livinghealthy360.com
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Nitric oxide test for asthma
Definition
An exhaled nitric oxide test is one of several tests that can be used to check for asthma. It involves breathing into a mouthpiece attached to a machine that measures the level of nitric oxide gas in your breath. Nitric oxide is produced by the body normally, but high levels in your breath can mean that your airways are inflamed — a sign of asthma.....
Read more here: mayoclinic.org
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