White House: Global Warming Will Give Your Kids Asthma

The White House is claiming global warming will increase asthma risks for kids, elderly and “communities of color” unless carbon dioxide emissions are drastically cut.
“In the past three decades, the percentage of Americans with asthma has more than doubled, and climate change is putting these individuals and many other vulnerable populations at greater risk of landing in the hospital,” the White House said in a fact sheet, ahead of a presidential announcement on corporations and schools that are taking global warming seriously.....

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Mucus Protein May Trigger Worsening Asthma

Sugars in a specific mucus protein can induce the apoptosis of white blood cells meant to attack parasites, which can combat asthma, according to research published in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
 Researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine examined lungs from normal and mucin-deficient mice, as well as mouse tracheal epithelial cells both in vitro and in vivo in order to isolate, biochemically identify, and biologically characterize naturally occurring endogenous glycan ligands for Saliac acid binding, immunoglobulin like lectin F (Siglec F). Siglec F is the mouse equivalent of the human protein Siglec 8. The white blood cells, called eosinophils, can worsen asthma and other diseases and eczema when too many of the cells get activated.....

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Common Cold and Exacerbating Asthma Conditions

For children going to school, their time in the classroom is a time of learning but also a time when germs can be spread on a wide scale basis. For asthma patients this can often mean several causes of their condition becoming worse without having done much to cause it.....

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