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Tuesdays are Your Turn – Cold Air Attacks
Wintry weather never triggered my daughter, not even when we moved to Colorado and started hiking high up in the Rockies. But AG surprised me when she ended up hyper-sensitive to cold air during her recent bronchitis. About four days mid-infection and two days into her course of antibiotics, boredom set in. Watching movies on the [...] -
Friday Links – Moldy Lungs, Flu, Inhalers and Diabetes
Picking up my girl today! I’ve got no time to chat as a result, so enjoy some lung links sans commentary: You Might Have Mold in Your Lungs Early Flu = Possible Asthma Protection Do Steroid Inhalers Raise the Risk of Diabetes? And one for the Weird Health files: Smart Phone Tests for Sexually Transmitted Diseases (Thanks, Kerri.) Enjoy your weekend! I [...] -
Conversations with My Asthma Tween
Let me tell you a little bit about the stage I’ve reached with my kid. First off, a little recent background: My mother came to Colorado for Thanksgiving, meaning I hosted for everyone this year. During that same holiday week, AG had one of the leading roles in her school musical. (There may be video. Eventually.) True [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – Cold Symptoms & Flares
Today’s reader response comes from my email and asks a question I used to have myself, back during the early days: In an old post on your site, you mentioned that you used to mistake your daughter’s asthma flare-ups for colds (please forgive me if I misread). I am currently under the impression that the only [...] -
Friday Links – North American Asthma Care, Childhood Rates, Emotional Impacts
U.S. Asthma Care: Still Lacking 71% of these study participants had poorly controlled asthma, but 64% of them thought it was well controlled. Clearly, there’s a disconnect here somewhere. Canadian Kids Have Lowest Asthma Rates in 10+ Years Good job, my neighbors to the north. But on the other hand: Kids in Canada Feel Emotional Fallout of [...] -
Friday, er, Monday Links – California Whooping Cough, Lung Taste Buds
Let me tell you something: Colorado takes Halloween seriously, you guys. There were parties. There were dances and haunted houses. There was trick or treating last night with a whole bunch of other people until after 9:00 and, unlike the Deep South where I used to live, there were hordes and hordes of neighbors still up [...] -
Friday Links – Asthma Boxing “Excuse,” Flu Vaccines
Boxer Vitali Klitschko Says Some Controversial Things About Asthma I don’t know anything about boxing except what the Rocky movies taught me, but I’m pretty sure you should file this under “Trash Talk.” (Wildly inaccurate, stereotype-perpetuating trash talk.) The Problems with Privately Funded Research Ever wonder how accurate medical research is, particularly when a pharmaceutical company funds it? [...] -
Friday Links – The Ig Nobels and Asthma, First-of-its-Kind Illinois Inhaler Law
Carrying Inhalers Easier for Illinois Students Now A new Illinois law allows students to carry their own inhalers with only their prescriptions and written parental permission on file rather than also requiring a doctor’s note, as many schools around the country do. Considering the vast number of students with asthma in the U.S. and the way [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – September Epidemic, Anyone?
I’d never heard of the September Epidemic of asthma hospitalizations and ER visits before this year, so I’m curious: How are you guys this month? Anyone fall victim to the September trend? As for us, my kid appeared, at first, to have missed out on the sickness and flares entirely this September, but no! She managed to [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – Cough Drops and Syrup
When I found out my now 11 year-old daughter has asthma, she was two. And right after dropping that bomb of a diagnosis, her doctor gave me the advice that’s probably familiar to most of you: - No cough suppressants - No vapor rub - No cough drops Because if your kid practically hacks up a lung with every [...]
