Children's asthma symptoms improve when families educated on reducing household allergens
Children with asthma related to mouse allergies show as much improvement when their families are taught how to clean allergens and trap mice as they do when professional pest managers treat the home, a new study by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine researchers suggests.
The results, published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, could help doctors and scientists who have long looked for ways to reduce rates and symptoms of asthma in Baltimore.....
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The tricky thing about asthma
In mid-January, health headlines announced that nearly one-third of adults diagnosed with asthma don’t actually have this respiratory condition at all. This announcement appeared everywhere from Fox News Health to the Chicago Tribune.
As a primary care doc, a medical writer, and an asthma sufferer, I was very skeptical of these dramatic announcements, and with good reason. An editorial that accompanied this study provides important perspective that suggests the news headlines were exaggerated and misleading.....
Read more here: health.harvard.edu
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Schools target asthma responseNew law requiring individual plans for student sufferers
For millions of children with asthma, a day at school can present a wealth of triggers.
Illinois is taking the lead in requiring schools to establish specific procedures for how to deal with such an emergency.
A law that went into effect in January requires schools to work with parents of asthma sufferers to develop such plans.
Asthma causes airways to swell, limiting the amount of air getting to the lungs. It can cause shortness of breath, wheezing and coughing and even death. Allergens or high activity can cause an attack.
Superintendent Dustin Day said there won’t be much to change in Waverly schools.....
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