X-halo: How to Manage Asthma at Home

Do you or your little ones suffer from Asthma? Here’s how to breathe easier at home, mama
Breathe in, breathe out … Now it is that easy to measure your Exhaled Breath Temperature (EBT). The world’s first breath thermometer, X-halo, measures the temperature of the air in your lungs to monitor signs of inflammation effectively.
X-halo, the first clinically proven handheld device of its kind (more than 10,000 patients participated in at least 200 clinical trials in hospitals around the world), allows asthmatics to track airway inflammation levels easily and quickly at home. It picks up inflammation in the lungs by measuring the EBT to provide early warning, up to 48 hours prior to an asthma attack!.....

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Bystander promises to call ambulance for asthma attack teen, steals phone instead

Thieves, by definition, are unpleasant people; but some just take being scumbags to a whole new level, as proven by this story from Manchester in the United Kingdom. Even if you’re vigilant and protective of your shiny new smartphone — in this case a lovely Google Pixel XL — there’s nothing much you can do if someone wants to take it when you’re in the middle of an asthma attack. Yes, really.
Eighteen-year old Evie Merrygold was feeling short of breath at a nightclub in Manchester, and left the building to get some fresh air. However, she left her inhaler inside and subsequently collapsed own the ground as she tried to catch her breath. Merrygold estimates she was unconscious for five minutes, before waking to find a man next to her.....

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Smoking and asthma: 4 questions answered
It is a given that smoking is bad, but just how bad is smoking for people with asthma? We weighed in with a pulmonologist.

We've all heard the following in a conversation: “My 86-year-old asthmatic grandmother smokes and she is as healthy as a horse! Smoking can’t be that bad.”
Or can it? Is this just a misconception, or is there actually some truth to this statement? We spoke to Associate Professor Richard van Zyl-Smit, head of the Lung Clinical Research Unit (LCRU) at the University of Cape Town Lung Institute, to find out.
How bad is smoking for people with asthma?.....

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