Ask An Adult: How Your Period Could Affect Your Asthma

Last year my childhood asthma came back. I’d always associated the illness with kids puffing on inhalers in gym class, so its adult return was a bit of a surprise. Especially since, while my childhood asthma had been down to obvious triggers - doing exercise or a high pollen count - this time around the coughing and wheezing symptoms seemed to pop up randomly each month. One day cold weather wouldn’t affect me, then a week later it would leave me feeling like I was being choked. In fact, the only similarity between each few days of symptoms was the fact they always came just before my period. The idea that the two could be connected seemed unlikely. 
I was wrong. When I looked online, I found loads of tweets from women confused by the relationship between their period and their asthma. Esme, 18, from Nottingham was one of them.....

Read more here: thedebrief.co.uk

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Early-life asthma may contribute to childhood obesity

Asthma affects millions of children in the United States, and so does obesity. A new study may have found a link between the two, as early-life asthma may contribute to the development of childhood obesity.
It is estimated that asthma affects around 1 in 10 U.S. children.
As for childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that 12.7 million children in the U.S. - or approximately 17 percent - are obese.
Childhood obesity and asthma are often found to occur together, but existing research has not yet clarified whether asthma actually contributes to the childhood obesity "epidemic."
New research from the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles aims to fill this research gap by examining the effects of asthma and asthma medication on childhood obesity.....

Read more here: medicalnewstoday.com

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Think You Have Asthma? You Might Not

Many adults who believe they have asthma actually may not.
Using random dialing, Canadian researchers recruited 613 men and women who had been given a diagnosis of asthma within the past five years. Then over four visits they gave them a series of drug challenges and spirometry, a physical test of breathing capacity, to confirm or rule out the disorder. The study is in JAMA.....

Read more here: nytimes.com