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Archive for November, 2008
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More Thankfulness, Less Whining
Dear Internet, I did, actually, think of two more reasons for gratitude last night: 1. Your incredibly gracious emails and comments yesterday. AG and I are both doing much better, thank you. 2. This blog–rather, the fact that this is a personal blog and not a job ’cause I’m taking the rest of the week off to enjoy [...] -
I’d Be Thankful For More Sleep
What with this being Thanksgiving week and all, I had a couple of the usual gratitude posts halfway planned out in my head. Then a couple of things happened: 1. I delayed my move to Denver from December to March. Various reasons both financial and schedule-related motivated this decision. They include: - a family wedding in San Antonio [...] -
Friday Links – Fall Asthma Babies, Bush vs. National Parks
Your Fall Baby’s Birthday May Up Risk of Asthma Development Vanderbilt University has new research suggesting autumn babies, who are around four months-old during the height of cold and flu season, have a 30% higher chance of developing asthma than babies born during other seasons. The study adds weight to the early respiratory infection risk factor [...] -
Throw Another Manufactured, Asthma-Friendlier Log on the Fire
http://www.theasthmamom.com/2008/11/20/through-another-manufactured-asthma-friendlier-log-on-the-fire/ It’s cold (even here), the holidays are closing in, and new readers have been landing at Asthma Mom through Google searches like, Are fireplaces bad for asthma? Indoor air quality + fireplaces Are fireplaces eco-friendly? Natural gas vs. wood burning fireplaces You get the idea. If you landed here through a search for wood burning fireplace information, welcome! Pull up a [...] -
Weird Health Wednesdays – Bizarre Skin Treatments, Breastfeeding Men
New Anti-Aging Skin Treatment Restores Youth from Inside, and You’ll Never Guess How The British company that pioneered this new procedure, which is similar to Botox treatments and called Vavelta, claims it’s permanent. That’s not the interesting part, though. Click on the link to check out where they get the skin cells to make the anti-wrinkle [...] -
Adult Asthma Misdiagnosed by One-Third?
Are you an adult with asthma? Maybe not. In an interesting twist, while asthma is generally under diagnosed in children, up to 30% of asthma diagnoses in adults may be incorrect. Most of you probably know firsthand the long, slow process of getting an asthma diagnosis for a child. Like me, you likely dragged your kid to the [...] -
Asthma Tips for Thanksgiving
I’m running so far behind today, I’ve got to rely on some holiday-coping links instead of actual content. However, they’re links to my own stuff, so I guess this sort of counts as a real post: Traveling with asthma during the holidays, or any other time. Holiday air freshener vs. asthma, plus some alternative solutions. The elusive asthma-friendly [...] -
Friday Links – Poverty & Asthma, Billion-Dollar Air Pollution
Poor Kids Have Worse Asthma? Well. An initial read of this headline prompted me to say, “Well, yeah. Of course poverty makes childhood asthma worse.” Limited housing options, the stress of not having enough healthy food or access to good medical care, urban schools in high-traffic areas–how could these factors associated with poverty not add up to [...] -
The Obama Dog and Asthma Awareness
http://www.theasthmamom.com/2008/11/13/the-obama-dog-and-asthma-awareness/ Two daughters in a certain wildly famous political family are getting a new dog, and the media is all over the “story” right now since A) Their dad, President-Elect Barack Obama, joked about the decision in a now-famous sound byte during his first press conference as President-Elect. B) The Obama family needs to find a dog with [...] -
Weird Health Wednesdays – Healthy Beer, Asthma Snorkel, Rabid Fox Workout
Beer – Not Your Mother’s Health Food This is much better than plain old lite beer. Rice University grads and undergrads figured out how to add resveratrol to brewer’s yeast to produce the drink. Resveratrol is the red wine chemical that appears to help protect against heart disease and cancer. Behold, the Asthma Snorkel While I usually only [...]
