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Health & Wellness News tagged with asthma

Asthma and Humidity
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, preventative, humidity, asthma, protection )

Raffi
- 122 days ago - qualityhealth.com
If you find your asthma symptoms seem to heat up on hot summer days, the humidity and high temperatures just may be to blame. For some people, cold weather seems to be their biggest trigger. But for others, the heat and humidity of summer
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Significant Proportion of Asthmatics May Have Been Over-Diagnosed
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, asthma )

Michael
- 315 days ago - naturalnews.com
Have you or a loved one been diagnosed with asthma? If so, there is actually a good chance that you have been misdiagnosed, according to recent research conducted in Canada.
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Asthma Attacks Can Be Reduced By Using This Russian Breathing Technique
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, asthma )

Michael
- 387 days ago - naturalnews.com
Anyone who has endured an asthma attack or watched their child suffer as they gasped for breath knows the helpless feeling that can grip you as powerfully as the attack itself.
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Thunderstorms And Asthma -- Meteorologists And Epidemiologists Study Connection Between Thunderstorms And Asthma Attacks
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, asthma, weather )

Michael
- 388 days ago - sciencedaily.com
A multidisciplinary team studying weather patterns and records of emergency room visits found a rise in patients with asthma attacks in the days after a thunderstorm.
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Asthma's Course Differs By Gender - US News and World Report
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, children, asthma )

Michael
- 467 days ago - health.usnews.com
Boys may be more likely to have childhood asthma than girls, but they are also more likely to grow out of it, a new study says.
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Tree Lined Streets Have Fewer Young Children With Asthma
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, health, environment, interesting, research, asthma )

Jan
- 573 days ago - medicalnewstoday.com
In total, 9% of young children had asthma. For every standard deviation increase in tree density, 343 trees per square kilometer, asthma rates in this age group fell by almost a quarter
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Traffic Exhaust Can Cause Asthma, Allergies, Impaired Respiratory Function in Children
Health & Wellness  (tags: child health, child neglect, asthma, allergies, impaired repiratory function, infant risk )

Nancy
- 594 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Children exposed to high levels of air pollution during their first year of life run a greater risk of developing asthma, pollen allergies, and impaired respiratory function. However, genetic factors are also at play.
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Special Camps Help Kids With Asthma Cope
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, asthma, health, camp, illness, humans )

Danielle
- 692 days ago - news.yahoo.com
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Attending a special asthma camp can help children improve their asthma management skills, a new study shows. However, more than one third of the children still had poorly controlled asthma, despite being under a doctor's care.
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Pesticides May Cause Asthma Among Farm Women
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, women, asthma, pesticides, farms, allergic, warning, study, research, illness )

Danielle
- 692 days ago - news.yahoo.com
(HealthDay News) -- Farm women who come in contact with some widely used pesticides may have an increased risk of developing allergic asthma, a new study suggests. However, the risk of developing non-allergic asthma does not increase for women exposed to
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Food Additives Making Kids Crazy
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, food, kids, food additives, adverse behavioural reactions, allergies, asthma, hyperactivity, artificial colours )

Ann
- 710 days ago - happykidsclub.info
HUNDREDS of popular Australian children's snack foods and sweets are laced with suspect additives which international researchers have linked to adverse behavioural reactions.
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Does Using Humidifers in the Winter Spread Mold, Bacteria?
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, winter, humidity, hygrometer, colds, molds, asthma, humidifier )

Eduardo
- 716 days ago - boston.com
Humidifiers can be a breeding ground for mold and bacteria. While humidifiers may be "soothing" for people who have asthma flare-ups because of dry indoor air, dirty humidifiers can create more problems than they solve.
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Stronger Warnings Urged on Asthma Drugs
Health & Wellness  (tags: asthma, drugs, Serevent, Advair, children, risk, death )

Eduardo
- 727 days ago - webmd.com
Serevent and Advair, already carry "black box" warnings that the active ingredient salmeterol may increase the risk of asthma-related death. Doctors and patients should be alerted that the drugs could increase risks of dangerous side effects in children.
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FDA Panel Backs Tougher Warning on Asthma Drugs for Kids
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, health, risks, medications, asthma, steroids, FDA )

Gregory
- 728 days ago - healthday.com
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Wednesday urged that stronger label warnings focused on children be added to the packaging for Serevent and Advair, two widely used asthma drugs.
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Hold The Antibiotics: Infections Critical For Healthy Life
Health & Wellness  (tags: research, antibiotics, bacterias, sanitizers, asthma, allergies, mental illnesses )

Nicole
- 746 days ago - motherjones.com
Nix the antibacterial soaps. Forget the hand sanitizers, antibiotic gels, sprays, and baby blankets. Research shows that antibacterial products actually make children and adults more likely to develop asthma and allergies and maybe even mental illnesses.
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Foods That Cure Asthma And Allergies
Health & Wellness  (tags: asthma, vegetables, allergies )


- 779 days ago - newstarget.com
Outbreaks of asthma and allergies have increased considerably since the early 1980s. Asthma statistics outline a jump of 74% for children between the ages of 5-14 years and 160% for children under four years old........
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