HUMIDITY CAN CAUSE AN ASTHMA ATTACK

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Humidity can make it harder to breathe for people with asthma.
Valerie Fox, Respiratory Care Education Coordinator at Navicent Health, said people with asthma should be alert.
“When you go outside the heat hits you a lot differently. The air is a lot thicker, so that air being thicker feeling with the humidity, high humidity, will make it a little bit harder for you to breathe and take those breaths in,” Fox said.
If you know humidity triggers your asthma, it’s important to take your inhaler at least 15 minutes before you go outside.
“If you know you’re going to be outside for a long period of time, you know kids are out obviously playing games, activity and sports and stuff so they need to pretreat ahead of time, if they’re going to be exposed,” she said. “Anytime you have a trigger that you know what the trigger is, you always wants to pretreat with your rescue inhaler first before being exposed”.....

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Camp Teaches Kids How to Live with Asthma

Beyond the busy city streets, populated sidewalks and air pollution, children are offered an opportunity to explore, fish and practice archery at a summer camp. However, these children are diagnosed with asthma and the program provides them an opportunity to experience summer camp and learn how to control their illness.
“There is a need for children to learn about their asthma and what to do,” Michael Johnson, camp director for Camp Breathe Happy, told the AFRO.
The camp, owned and operated by the nonprofit Breathe DC, specializes in educating children ages 8 to 12 while giving them a camping experience in Upper Marlboro, Md. The camp began in 2010 when Breathe DC decided to serve communities in Wards 7 and 8 that faced health disparities, according to Johnson.....

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Asthma Is More Difficult to Control in Patients With Fibromyalgia, Study Shows

Elevated anxiety and depression may be two symptoms that could partially explain why fibromyalgia patients who also have asthma have poorer control of their disease than asthmatics without fibromyalgia, according to a study by the Doctor Peset University Hospital in Spain.
The findings, published in the journal, Current Medical Research and Opinion, suggested that it might be helpful to include interventions such as breathing retraining programs in multidisciplinary treatments for asthma patients with fibromyalgia.....

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