A few months back, I created the Steroid Question tab up there because I think parents of the newly diagnosed carry on an internal debate over maintenance steroids for kids more than any other aspect of asthma care.
Well I did, at least. The idea that inhaled steroids would actually help rather than hurt was […]
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Link Between Women’s Adult-Onset Asthma and Heart Disease
According to this report in the American Journal of Cardiology, the same doesn’t hold true for men and adult-onset asthma, or for anyone of either gender with child-onset asthma.
(As if the whole not-breathing part weren’t bad enough.)
Yet Another Study Linking Early Preventative Steroids to Long-Term Asthma Control
This one […]
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I’m overly fond of statistics when it comes to asthma, partly because my own experiences with my kid don’t mean much outside the larger context. But in all the data I post, the numbers that catch my attention most are the ones on patient/parent asthma knowledge and uncontrolled asthma in children.
We all know education is […]
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Singulair Helps Girls, Kids Exposed to Secondhand Smoke More
Okay, I know Singulair is a touchy subject right now. My own kid doesn’t take it because of several side effects, but this is good news for asthma patients who can tolerate it. National Jewish researchers have noted how well girls and children exposed to nicotine smoke […]
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Don’t miss these three:
The New York Times Wrote About the CFC to HFA Inhaler Change Today
I doubt the switch or the differences in the new inhalers are news to any of you. AG’s been using the HFA models since fall, when our pharmacy stopped stocking the old ones. Still, it’s nice to see the Times […]
Filed under: Air Quality, Asthma Meds, Asthma News & Research, Asthma Triggers, Asthma in the School, Children's Asthma, Children's Health, Environment, Self-Pimpage | 5 people talking »
Ooh, edited to included some self-pimpage. Check me out. I’ve sort of cracked the American Lung Association.
Environmental Defense Fund Says Stop Idling for World Asthma Day
That’s “idle” as in your car, not your personal habits. Ozone’s bad for asthma so no news there, but in the face of everything we can’t change on our own […]
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I love you, North Carolina.
(wipes tear)
And now for some old asthma *remedies,* most of which contained arsenic and/or iodides, from the archives of the AAAAI via the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee library.
These are the sorts of things that make me appreciate inhalers and prednisone. Click the links for photos.
Kutnow’s Anti-Asthmatic Powder
This “palliative for asthmatic paroxysms” […]
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Dry powder inhaler (DPI) - a small, handheld plastic container that contains asthma relief medications in powder form. Unlike metered dose inhalers, which require users to push down on the device to release medicine, DPIs use a breath-activated delivery. When a patient takes a deep enough breath on the DPI, it releases the right dose. […]
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Washington Post: U.S. Air Hurts Asthma Kids
Shocking, isn’t it? I mean, the Bush administration has been so vigilant at making sure ozone pollutions standards are nice and stringent for my Asthma Kid, and yours.
(rolls eyes)
Asthma Treatment and Severity Might Affect Inhaled Insulin
I know nothing about insulin or endocrine disorders, so you should probably go straight […]
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New Research: Improve Your Breathing By First Making it Worse
Here’s even more startling asthma research, this time from University of Houston professor Richard Bond, who’s been experimenting with beta blockers as asthma therapy. It’s a pretty revolutionary idea when you consider beta blockers are antagonists while the meds of choice for flare relief are agonists. […]
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