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Friday Links – The Not-a-Conference, Chickenpox, Voting
HomeHer10 is the Most Fun I’ve Had All Week If you follow me on Twitter and you’ve been wondering why I keep hashtagging the most mundane of tweets with #HomeHer10, this is why. Also, here are some “conference” highlights. Chickenpox Might – MIGHT – Reduce Risk of Asthma, Skin Allergy One study suggests this link, [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – Kids’ Allergy Shots at Home
What’s proposed in today’s question would ease most of the inconvenience and probably some of the fear involved in weekly allergy shots for kids: Can allergy shots be given at home to kids? I have an adult friend who, after some training of course, administers her own allergy shots at home. I asked the staff [...] -
Friday Links – Allergy Shot Vaccine, Asthma Racial Gap, Ice Cream
Allergy Shots Without the Shot? I know a couple of you would love this. Research looks promising for a kind of immunotherapy vaccine, which would help prevent allergy triggers for asthmatics sans injections. Minority Kids Have Higher Asthma Rates, Even with Insurance We’ve known about the higher burden asthma places on black and Latin American [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – Allergy Shots for Kids
Today’s question comes from Kelley, whose daughter is highly allergic to cats. And by “highly,” I mean she experiences major symptoms even on a full regimen of allergy meds. The doctor suggested immunotherapy, and since taking a kid for weekly or biweekly jabs is no joke, Kelley’s looking for some good information. In particular: What’s [...] -
Summer Air
Show of hands: who flares during the hot months? Ever notice that? How it tends to be one or the other? So many asthmatics seem to breathe okay with either warm or cool weather, but usually not both. My kid, for example, sometimes flares with heavy exercise in high humidity, but her airways appear to [...] -
Friday Links – Toothpaste, Perfume, Food Allergies
The Toothpaste that Might – Heavy on the ‘Might’ – Prevent Asthma Symptoms The People’s Pharmacy is a radio show and website that lots of newspapers syndicate. Recently, it featured this brief article about two radio-show callers who claim Crest Sensitivity toothpaste prevented some of their asthma symptoms. Now, the toothpaste does contain potassium nitrate [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – How Many Risk Factors?
Sometimes it feels like my daughter was programmed to develop asthma. Check out her contributing factors: 1. Early birth: 34-35 weeks 2. Low birth weight: under 5 lbs 8 oz (2500 g) -
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. -
Happy Flare-Free Holidays
You know as well as I do that there’s no way to guarantee a triggerless Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year’s, or any other winter holiday. But! Like every other occasion, event, place, time, day, random weather pattern, and otherwise innocuous element of everyday life – when it comes to asthma, this season is full–full–of potential triggers [...] -
Kids, Preschool and Remission
Two online articles I’ve read recently highlight some of the larger questions surrounding childhood asthma, its causes, and its outcomes. The first one appears to debunk a popular theory that preschool, which exposes kids to lots of contagious illness at an early age, may help protect children from the over-active immune response involved with asthma [...]
