Asthma, More Deadly With Age, Takes Heavy Toll On Older Adults

In early June, Donna Bilgore Robins stood on a patio in Beaver Creek, Colo., under a crystal-clear blue sky and tried to catch her breath.
She couldn’t.
With mountain vistas around her, Robins felt as if she was drowning. She gasped for air hungrily again and again.
Robins knew all too well what was happening. Something — some kind of plant?  something in the mountain air? — had triggered her asthma, a lifelong condition.....

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Probiotic Use and Eczema, Asthma Prevention: No Conclusive Evidence

A study published in Pediatrics found no conclusive evidence to support the use of probiotics to prevent eczema and asthma in high-risk infants.1
In the study, researchers from UC San Francisco examined the effect of probiotic use among children receiving it for the first 6 months of life, and compared the results to those who did not receive probiotics. The goal of the study was to determine whether probiotic use lessened the risk of asthma and eczema, which frequently precedes asthma. The infants in the study all were at a high risk of developing asthma due to 1 or both parents having the condition.....

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Could your chest cold be a sign of asthma?

When you think about asthma, what comes to mind? Maybe it’s an image of your child coughing after exposure to pollen, or maybe it’s a kid running around on the soccer field that starts wheezing. We usually do not think of adults as having asthma, and for good reason — adult-onset asthma does not usually present with the same symptoms as it does with childhood asthma.....

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