Making Your Home Asthma Safe

Home is where the heart is, but it’s also loaded with asthma triggers. 
“Many asthma triggers are hiding in plain sight—in the bedroom, in the common living spaces, the kitchen and the bathrooms,” says Jill Heins, senior regional director of Respiratory Health for the American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest.
Before you can remove asthma triggers from your home, it is important to understand what is making a person’s asthma worse.....

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Could it be asthma? How to spot the symptoms

Imagine the challenge of trying to breathe through a straw for minutes or hours on end.
That’s how breathing can sometimes feel for people who have asthma—a chronic lung disease that causes the airways to narrow, making it difficult to breathe.
More than 25 million Americans now live with asthma, and that number continues to rise. While the disease affects people of all ages, it most often starts in childhood.....

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Living near Bridgeton Landfill does not increase risk of asthma, county says

People living in a two-mile radius of the smoldering Bridgeton Landfill have slightly higher rates of asthma and chronic lung disease compared to people who live elsewhere in St. Louis County, according to a health report released Friday.
But the differences are too small to conclude that living near the landfill is linked to the respiratory disorders, the St. Louis County Public Health Department concluded.....

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