Pediatrician talks about children's asthma

Last week on News Radio 1240 KQEN’s Talking Health program, Dr. Madhu Kankipati of Centennial Pediatrics in Roseburg was interviewed by host Lisa Platt about asthma in children.
The following is an edited version of that interview.
Lisa: Dr. Madhu, would you explain to us what asthma is?
Dr. Madhu Kankipati: Asthma is a chronic lung disease characterized by an inflammation of airways of the lung. Typical symptoms of asthma are shortness of breath, cough, wheezing. It’s very common in children and according to the 2013 CDC survey, 6.2 million children has asthma in the United States.....

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Truth About Asthma Treatment

Dr. David Hahn’s first research paper on asthma appeared in 1991, in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
In that study, Dr. Hahn and his colleagues enrolled 365 patients with an acute upper respiratory illness, all of whom were suffering with cold-like symptoms.
The researchers found that C. pneumoniae infection caused 5 percent of the acute bronchitis and 20 percent of community-acquired pneumonia.
They also reported that C. pneumoniae infection was associated with wheezing, asthmatic bronchitis, and adult-onset asthma. The authors speculated that the association was causal — C. pneumoniae was the underlying cause of asthma and wheezing.....

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Ninth thunderstorm asthma death

The lives lost to the freak thunderstorm asthma outbreak in Melbourne has risen to nine with another death two months after the weather event.
The Department of Health on Wednesday released a statement advising the ninth person had died in connection to the November 21 storm, which saw 8500 Victorians suddenly in need of hospital care.
All other patients have since been discharged.
Fairfax Media understands the person died this week and had received specialist treatment in an intensive care unit before being moved to a ward.....

Read more here: thecourier.com.au