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Friday Links – Smoking Protection, Stress, Bacteria Trigger. Plus, the Pumpple.
Boys with Asthma Smoke Less as Teens So! Silver lining. But only a very thin one, since researchers couldn’t find the same link in teen girls. Dammit. Mom’s Stress Worsens Kids’ Flares? I don’t even know what to say here because, hello? The single biggest source of my worry and tension as a mom of [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – The Return of Childhood Asthma
This one’s meant to satisfy my own curiosity and also to a create a sort-of spontaneous record online. We’ve all known so many people who think or hope their kids will outgrow asthma (everyone who’s ever parented a lung-challenged child, basically), but we also know that even if bronchial symptoms go on hiatus for awhile [...] -
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 [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – The Family Get-Together
Today’s question, from my email, is just in time for these pre-holiday months: How do you handle family gatherings (i.e. holidays and birthday parties) when someone in your extended family is sick? My family totally does not understand asthma, or asthmatic triggers. It seems like often during family gatherings, one of my nieces have a [...] -
Friday Links – Emma Stone’s On-Set Attack. Nutrition, Metabolism and Asthma Risk.
When I used to work away from home, every so often I’d face a run of days packed with project deadlines and multiple little tasks but also the kind of minor obstacles and tiny problems that are the death of productivity. Meetings that drag on too long. Phone and email tag with project contacts. Fire [...] -
Friday Links – Inhaler Wars, Harold Dow and Summer Asthma Deaths
Mold and Kids’ Asthma in New Orleans, 5 Years After Katrina High post-Katrina levels of asthma among New Orleans residents is the big story here, and it’s a devastating one. At the end of this particular interview, though, something else caught my eye. Dr. Floyd Malveaux, when talking about his intervention and treatment program of [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – Medical Advocacy in Schools
Speaking of asthma and school, as I’ve been doing here ad nauseum lately, Samantha has a question about groups that might help asthma parents resolve school issues. Samantha tells me her friend, another asthma mom, has been struggling with her child’s school over the timing and frequency of medication and nebulizer treatments and could use [...] -
Health Tips for the School Year
The First Day of School. My asthma kid’s starting sixth grade, her last year of elementary school, and her sister is a third grader this year. With school back in session and since Colorado sits poised on the verge of fall, this time of year my focus shifts conversations with the new teacher about my [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – Talking to a Child About Fatal Asthma
Last Friday Libby left a link to the following story in the comments: Ickey Woods, who used to play for the Cincinnati Bengals, lost his 16 year-old son, Javonte, to asthma over the weekend. After varsity football practice on Wednesday morning, Javonte suffered what sounds like a severe attack that night and ended up on [...] -
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, [...]
