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Archive for September, 2009
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H1N1 and Residual Coughing
**BEFORE YOU READ THIS ARCHIVED POST** Please read this more recent one on why Asthma Mom supports the H1N1 vaccine. Since the girls have attended their school only since last February when we moved to Colorado, I suppose the nurse there doesn’t know me well enough to recognize what kind of parent I am. Which would [...] -
Flu Survival Guide
When the Asthma Girl aches and radiates fever and can’t stop coughing, here’s how I get through: Valium Nah, just kidding.This is a survival guide, not a wish list. Of all the issues that make raising an asthmatic child difficult, the number one thing I hate the worst is the all-night coughing. I sleep lightly, always have, [...] -
My Asthma Kid and Her H1N1
So. Yes, it’s the swine flu. Last Friday I took my daughter to the doctor who, once she heard how sick I’ve been and listened to AG’s hacking cough, administered a flu test. Now, this wasn’t the H1N1 test specifically. As far as I can tell, no one’s giving those anymore except to patients in the hospital. [...] -
Swine Flu Update – Week Ending Sept. 25
On the Vaccine Front Kathleen Sebelius and the CDC expect between 6 and 7 million doses of the H1N1 vaccine during the first week of October. Looks like those will be the spray version, with injections to follow by the middle of the month. Protection is supposed to start kicking in within eight days. Regarding the seasonal [...] -
Fall Color at Kenosha Pass
I had a few posts planned this week, including a review, all of which I’ve put on hold because of unforeseen circumstances. Y’all, I am sick as a dog over here. Is it H1N1? Seasonal flu? Flu-like virus of some sort? Who knows? While sicker than I’ve been in years, achy, exhausted, feverish, and coughing hard enough to alarm [...] -
Learn from Elmo, HHS Secretary Tells Sneezing Correspondent
Have a little swine flu humor to start your weekend: Here’s Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius calling out NBC’s Chuck Todd for sneezing incorrectly during an H1N1 briefing. (via Jezebel) Don’t understand the Elmo reference? Here’s the original Sesame Street PSA on sneezing into your elbow rather than your hand in order to [...] -
Weekly Swine Flu Update
Welcome to your weekly H1N1 news roundup. “But Asthma Mom, when did you start writing this every week?” Why, just now, actually. Seriously, you may recall I slowed down on the posting this summer, what with the Job Search that Never Ends thing and the two kids home on summer break thing, but now that life has eased [...] -
The Invisibility of Asthma
One of the problems with asthma and the concept of *looking* sick, beyond your basic lack of understanding in the greater non-asthmatic world, is the way a chronic illness with little to no visual cues doesn’t generate much interest in changing third-party behavior. Recently, Danielle over at Life with These Lungs discussed how public smoking, both [...] -
More on Sunshine and Seasonal Flu
If you missed last week’s brief discussion about vitamin D’s possible affect on seasonal flu, these three links may not make sense to you. Vitamin D and Cold, Flu Prevention Scientific American examines some of the most recent research on the vitamin D/illness connection in this post from last February. While it doesn’t address tropical regions specifically, [...] -
Facts and Trivia from the History of Influenza
Because this Asthma Mom finds herself drawn to any headline with the word flu in it lately and also because I had to sacrifice this site’s popular Weird Health feature to a massively time-consuming and so far neverending job search, here’s a little trivia on the very un-trivial influenza virus: 1. Historical writings about flu-like symptoms [...]
