Cats to protect children from asthma
...cells over reacts causing runny nose, sneezing and wheezing of allergic reactions. Supporters of cleanliness hypothesis reasoned that exposure to cats might be protecting from asthma by strengthening the Th1 system. To prove this Thomas Platts-Mills and his colleagues from the University of Virginia looked a...A smoke free place to be initiated
...erienced ETS exposure during travel with coughing, wheezing or chest tightness. Many reported needing extra medication during travel times. Hopefully the study might encourage more places - like the locations these people travel a smoke free place....Allergies: A major health problem
...istamine’ comes into contact with lungs it induces wheezing and in the vent of attack occurring on the skin it results in hives. Indoor allergies can be kept away by preventing dust mites, animal dander and other such substances coming into contact with our body. Dr. Mary Worstell, an eminent authority attach...Asthma is not just a childhood condition
... aged 50 or over. Furthermore, while 88% knew that wheezing was a common symptom, 42% did not realise that a persistent cough that is worse at night or in the early morning, or shortness of breath are also common symptoms that indicate poorly controlled asthma. There seems to be a commonly held misconceptio...... the immune system and leads to the characteristic wheezing and coughing symptoms of an asthma attack. Researchers at Stanford University have been studying mice that lack a specific type of// immune cell called natural killer (NK) cells. These mice do not get asthma, despite being exposed to the usual trigge...New Survey Finds Troubling Data on American Asthma Sufferers
...percent), difficulty breathing (19 percent), wheezing (18 percent), tightness in chest (18 percent) and difficulty falling or staying asleep (19 percent). -- The perceived mild symptoms may translate into underdosing: of those taking less than the prescribed dose of their fast-acting inha......nths to 59 months of age who have a pasthistory of wheezing illness. In children 12 months to 59 months ofage ...gewithout a past history of wheezing, the rates of wheezing were notstatistically different in children who received FluMist (4.7percent) compared to the flu sh...