7 ways to help your child avoid asthma

Asthma has a very negative effect on children's lives, and parents should do everything in their power to prevent this disease from manifesting.
Asthma is a lung disease that tends to start in childhood.
During an asthma attack the flow of air out of the lungs is limited by obstruction, caused by a narrowing or constriction of the airways through smooth muscle constriction and swelling of the linings of the airways.....

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Wellness Wednesday: Information Therapy, Asthma

A visit to the doctor's office can be stressful, especially when you are attempting to remember all the information the doctor told you about your condition. If you do not receive what is called information therapy after each visit, you could be missing out on vital information such as different approaches for treating your medical condition.....

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Asthma warning after hospitalisation spike

Four hundred Australians are dying and up to 40 000 more are hospitalised each year due to asthma, says the National Asthma Council of Australia.
The statistics are shocking but according to CEO Kristine Whorlow they are a vast improvement on the early 1990s when thousands of Australians died each year from the respiratory disease.
"There used to be a lot of deaths in children and young people but now 85 per cent of deaths are people 55 and over," Ms Whorlow said.....

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