Category: Asthma

How to Cope with Allergies & Asthma in 2017

In 2017, Live Science is bringing our readers a monthly series on personal health goals, with tips and tricks we’ve gathered from the many health experts we’ve interviewed. Each month, we’ll focus on a different goal, and the goal for March is exercise.

Why asthmatics are less able to fight off flu

London, March 10 – People with asthma are likely to have worse symptoms when they get the flu and are more likely to end up in hospitals because of immune system differences, researchers said. The study showed that when exposed to the flu virus, people with asthma have weaker immune systems, whereas healthy people show a strong immune system-triggering reaction.

Is fruit and vegetable intake associated with asthma or chronic…

Is fruit and vegetable intake associated with asthma or chronic rhino-sinusitis in European adults? Results from the Global Allergy and Asthma Network of Excellence LEN) Survey. Fruits and vegetables are rich in compounds with proposed antioxidant, anti-allergic and anti-inflammatory properties, which could contribute to reduce the prevalence of asthma and allergic diseases.

NorthBay Healthcare hosts Facebook chat on asthma, allergies

For many parents, understanding how to recognize the symptoms of asthma and allergies and to care for their youngsters who suffer with these conditions is a daily struggle. Childhood asthma and allergies is the focus of discussion when NorthBay Healthcare hosts its next #OurDocTalk, a live Facebook chat with pediatrician Dr. Matthew Heeren.

1 in 3 misdiagnosed with asthma: study

… is. “Apart from the side effects the individual might be experiencing there’s also the costs to both themself and the health care system,” Ms Goldman said. The study looked at 613 randomly selected patients from 10 Canadian cities diagnosed with …

Asthma Diagnosis Later Reversed in About 1 in 3 Adults, Study Finds

Although asthma is considered a chronic disease, doctors have been puzzled by its often changing nature that can makes prescribing medicine, or stopping them, tricky. A study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that about one-third of adults tested for the study, who had been diagnosed with asthma in the previous five years, showed no evidence of the condition during later follow-up examinations and testing.

Heartburn drugs during pregnancy may increase child’s risk of asthma

A University of Edinburgh study has found that women who use heartburn medication in pregnancy were more likely to have children who developed asthma. The team, led by the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the University of Tampere in Finland, found that children born to mothers who used prescribed heartburn medications were one-third more likely to seek treatment for asthma symptoms.