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Friday, March 12th, 2010MedPage Today (3/4, Gever) reported, “Almost everyone who died from an out-of-hospital acute asthma attack in Milwaukee over a four-year period had one thing in common: they weren’t using inhaled corticosteroids,” according to researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin. “Of 22 out-of-hospital asthma deaths from 2004 to 2008, the [...]
Study supports pollution link to asthma in childhood
Friday, March 12th, 2010Source: MedWire News
Exposure to increased levels of air pollution in early childhood is associated with an increased risk for asthma and related symptoms at the age of 8 years, research shows.
“Exposure to ambient air pollution can exacerbate existing asthma,” explain Ulrike Gehring (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) and team. “The role of exposure to ambient air [...]
Poorly-controlled childhood asthma common despite consistent ICS use
Sunday, January 31st, 2010Source: MedWire News
Many children with mild-to-moderate asthma do not achieve good control of their disease despite consistent use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), researchers have found.
Writing in the Annals of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology, Gregory Sawicki (Children’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts, USA) and team explain: “Daily controller medication use is recommended for children with persistent asthma to achieve [...]
Understanding your asthma medications
Friday, January 8th, 2010Source: CHealth
Types of medicationsAsthma medications can fall into three general categories: relievers, controllers, and combination medications.
Reliever medications, sometimes referred to as rescue medications, help stop the symptoms of an asthma attack. They are used as needed and are most effective when used at the first sign of asthma symptoms, such as shortness of breath, coughing, wheezing, [...]
Asthma diagnosis and treatment key
Thursday, December 10th, 2009Dr. Sanjay Gupta (CNN)
At least 22 million Americans have asthma. Many people do not know that they have it, or do not understand the seriousness of the condition. But Ashthma claims close to four thousand lives in this country every year.
Tamra Skahan’s severe asthma means she spends a lot of time in the doctor’s office.
“There [...]
Asthmatic Smokers’ Lungs Recover when They Quit
Monday, December 7th, 2009Source: MedPage Today
Asthmatic smokers who quit the habit can reverse lung damage that aggravates their breathing difficulties, regardless of how long and how often they smoked in the past, a Dutch study found.
The lungs of asthmatics who stopped smoking were in similar condition to those of asthmatics who never smoked, based on a several measurements [...]
Can parent mentors improve the asthmatic care of children?
Monday, November 30th, 2009This is an interesting piece of news. UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists have found that informed adults may perhaps assist families in delaying complications associated with asthma. The findings suggest that interventions by parent mentors could effectively decrease wheezing, asthma attacks, emergency room visits and missed adult workdays. Apparently, parent mentors are those caregivers of [...]
H1N1 Especially Worrisome For Kids With Asthma
Thursday, November 19th, 2009By Megan Moore
Children with asthma are on local doctors’ radar because they are at such a high risk for developing the H1N1 flu.
One doctor estimates 20 to 30 percent of children in our area have asthma…making the concern for their health during this extra long flu season especially high.
Seven year old Logan Skidmore has asthma, and [...]
Birth control pills may help with asthma
Monday, November 16th, 2009The pill may do more than prevent pregnancy; it could actually help level off asthma symptoms.
According to researchers at the University of Alberta in Canada, the monthly change in hormonal levels affects airway inflammation, causing symptoms in female sufferers to get worse at certain times of the month.
They found that asthma sufferers who took birth [...]
Patients may have trouble controlling asthma due to lack of medication adherence.
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009The Los Angeles Times (10/24, Stein) “Booster Shots” blog reported, “Asthma can be a tough condition to treat in certain patients,” but a paper appearing in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine suggests that the “difficulty may sometimes lie with the patients, not the medication.” After analyzing [...]
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