Take A Breath And Try These Natural Allergy And Asthma Remedies

Spring -- it's a wonderful time of year. The sun is shining, flowers are in bloom and change is in the air. That said, many asthma sufferers cringe at this time of year because seasonal allergies often worsen asthma symptoms.
This is really no surprise. The mechanisms of seasonal allergies and asthma are closely related with more than 65% of asthmatic adults over 55 years suffering from at least one allergy.....

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Daughter's death turns Upstate mom into asthma activist

Sydney Johnson’s dream of becoming an art teacher was almost within grasp.
Just a few short months and the 22-year-old University of South Carolina senior from Greenville would graduate.
Instead, her promising young life was suddenly snuffed out by asthma — a condition neither she nor her family knew she had.
“She had bad allergies from birth,” her mother, Tammy Bailey, told The Greenville News. “But we never had a clue that she had asthma”.....

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New drug could help people with asthma come off steroid treatment

People who suffer from severe asthma could be looking at a better treatment option thanks to a new drug showing promise.
Right now people with asthma can use an oral steroid, a treatment often associated with long-term side effects. The new drug may have allow patients to reduce how often the steroids are used, ultimately reducing adverse side effects.
The results of the trial were published in the New England Journal of Medicine May 22, highlighting a new medicine and antibody called Benralizumab.....

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