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Archive for March, 2010
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Gone Hiking
It’s Spring Break in the Asthma Mom household, did I mention? We’re heading to Eldorado Canyon for part of the day while some work gets done on the house. In the meantime, keep those entries for the Breathlessness project coming! The responses filling my inbox so far are absorbing and insightful and far more descriptive and detailed [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – What is Asthma?
For the first and probably only time, reader response comments are closed. Here’s today’s question: What’s life with asthma like? Email your response for inclusion in the new Record of Breathlessness Posterous. Remember: -
Friday Links – Suspensions in School Asthma Death, Vaccines and Junk Science in Cracked
Five Suspended Over Asthma Death of British Schoolboy The Guardian goes into more heartrending detail on the death of Sam Linton and the school’s neglect of his asthma that led to it. Fair warning: this will probably push some of your buttons. An example: A teacher who had been alerted to Sam’s plight by other students told [...] -
When Kids and Cell Phones Make Sense – Medication Texting and Health Apps
In just five years, the number of kids with cell phones has shot up 68%, and 20% of six to 11 year-olds carry their own phones now, according to this research (pdf). Six year-olds! With cell phones! I’m no Luddite, but mobile phones in kindergarten? No. -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – Flare Entertainment
Today’s question comes from email: Any moms or dads with preschoolers have ideas to occupy my little one when she’s having a bad flare and I need to keep her from running around too much? (Besides movies and picture books?) Some Suggestions Craft supplies – crayons, stickers, glitter glue, etc. Puzzles White board with markers – my kid loved this Leapster [...] -
Your Child Is Allowed to Carry and Self-Administer an Inhaler at School
Asthma perceptions may need tweaking for years to come. Schools like this British one don’t always get it right, and lack of awareness can contribute to ignoring or underestimating the danger of a child’s severe flare. However. As of February 2010, South Dakota became the 50th and final state to pass laws allowing students to carry and [...] -
Friday Links – School Neglect, Stress Risk Factors, Bone Marrow
British Court Rules Student Asthma Death a Result of Neglect When 11 year-old Sam Linton suffered an asthma flare at his school in December 2007, he apparently struggled for hours while no one called an ambulance. Later, he died in the hospital. This grievous personal tragedy for the Linton family and the horrifying failure of Sam’s [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – Eyes & Spring Allergies (Help)
Who’s got tips for eye irritation during allergy season? I have almost no experience with seasonal allergy alleviation. My asthma kid’s allergic to dust mites only, and while my non-asthmatic seemed sensitive to tree pollens as a toddler, she’s not anymore. When she did spend the pre-summer months with a perpetual runny nose, we lived in [...] -
Tools for Spring Allergies
I took that photo from my backyard this morning. Because this is Denver, though, one of the most fickle regions in the U.S. weather system, tomorrow will heat up to 60 degrees. Spring allergies loom just around the corner for us, but maybe the blooming has already started where you live.
