Allergies and Asthma Can Be Harder to Control at School Than at Home

Newswise — ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL. (August 2, 2016) – You work hard to keep your child’s allergies and asthma under control. You clean to get rid of dust mites and pet dander, and you make sure your kids are taking the right medications at the right time. Then you send them off to school and your routine can fall apart, leaving your child with symptoms that aren’t controlled.
“Environmental allergens – things like mold, dust mites and dander from the class pet – can all affect your child’s allergies and make their symptoms worse,” says allergist Bryan Martin, DO, president of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI). “There are also many asthma triggers in the classroom, and uncontrolled asthma accounts for almost 14 million lost school days a year”.....

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How To Stop Asthma From Ruining Your Social Life

Asthma is a condition that can terrify some people because it severely restricts your ability to breathe freely.
Suffer from asthma? It is vital that you not smoke tobacco; if you do, quit. Smoking is bad in general for everyone, but it is particularly worse for asthma suffers because it decreases the amount of oxygen in the lungs, putting you at higher risk for asthma attacks.....

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Overusing asthma medication leads to 1 month ban for two athletes

Drug Free Sport New Zealand (DFSNZ) says the cases of a softball player and football player being banned from all sport for one month highlights the need for all athletes to make sure they exercise caution when taking medications. The Sports Tribunal of New Zealand today banned men’s softballer, Craig Wallace, and All Whites footballer Clayton Lewis from all sport for one month after committing rule violations caused by overusing the asthma medication Salbutamol contained in the product Ventolin.....

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