Time To Go Natural: Relaxers And Chemicals In Black Hair Products Linked To Asthma, Hair Loss & Miscarriage

It might be time to stop with the creamy crack, ladies. According to The Atlantic reports the chemicals in relaxers and products can slowly kill you!
When Teni Adewumi surveyed African American salon workers in Inglewood, California, she kept seeing the same health concerns over and over. Asthma. Dermatitis. Hair loss. Uterine fibroids. Miscarriage. Veteran stylists told her they experienced symptoms when they applied relaxers and other chemical hair straighteners, and they now preferred working with natural styles. But many didn’t know that the products they used could be making them sick.....

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New Asthma Drug Stops Attacks

ST. LOUIS. (KFSN) -- Imagine struggling to fill your lungs with air and with each breath, feeling like you're suffocating. That's what happens to more than 18-million Americans who suffer from asthma. Medications, shots, inhalers and steroids help most people keep it under control. But for some people that just isn't enough. Luckily, there's a new drug that may get them breathing easier again.....

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Ventilator race helps Jackson College students raise funds for kids with asthma

JACKSON, MI – Jackson College respiratory care students raced ventilators to raise funds for Camp Michi-MAC on Thursday, Nov. 5.
The 5-kilometer race also commemorated National Respiratory Care Week Oct. 25-31.
Two teams of students – Albuterol Wind and Spit Happens – raced decorated ventilators around the front circle drive of Justin Whiting Hall on the college's central campus. Albuterol Wind was the winner.....

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