Ozone, Asthma And The Oil And Gas Connection

Here’s a simple recipe for ozone: mix hydrocarbon and nitrogen oxide chemical compounds in the air, and add sunlight.
“The sun comes out and cooks this mixture and the outcome of that is ozone,” said Steve Brown, an atmospheric scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder.....

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How to Find out Which Asthma Treatments are Right for You?

Asthma is a chronic lung disease that has been reported to affect millions of people around the world. Its symptoms include whizzing, chest tightness, shortness of breath, and coughing. If you are an asthma patient, it means that you have inflamed airways. Asthma comes in various forms including:
- Exercise-induced Asthma: it is possible for otherwise healthy people to develop symptoms of asthma after normal exercises. However, the symptoms should not be allowed to keep you on the sidelines. In such a case, your immunologist may opt to create a management plan to control the symptoms during and after the activity.....

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Do I have Smoker’s Cough or Asthma?

Do you have a chronic cough? (A cough that persists for a long period of time or is constantly recurring?) It can be stressful on your body to have cough that just won’t go away and you may wonder if it is a more serious condition. Those who smoke or around smoking have a higher potential to develop a condition called Smoker’s Cough.
Smoker’s Cough is a cough that persists and according to the Mayo Clinic may have “A runny or stuffy nose, postnasal drip, sore throat, hoarseness, wheezing, heartburn or even blood” associated with it! While many of these are annoying, bothersome and tiring the most critical points to watch for are a cough associated with blood or if it begins affecting your normal life like your sleep. If these are noted it is likely time to see a doctor.....

Read more here: southwestallergyandasthma.com