Asthma

Most of the main conditions which people suffer from have a multitude of different treatments and asthma is the same. Depending on your age and your state of health you’ll be offered differing medications and as with all things, those…

Asthmatics will know just how many potential triggers there are for their condition. It’s a tricky condition to consistently manage due to this multitude of factors and the best way to do this is simply to be prepared for all the…

When it comes to the education of children there’s nothing more powerful than the perspective of those children. Nobody knows a person better than they know themselves and other generations won’t have nearly as much of an insight into the…

As far as chronic conditions go, asthma’s fairly easily managed. It’s not something which has to damage your wellbeing or your way of life excessively, it’s been around a long time and doctors have aces to some fairly potent management…

Asthma as a condition is fairly well known, most of us will have known at least one person with the condition while we were growing up and a good proportion of us may suffer or have suffered from it ourselves. Regardless of how well known…

Asthma is a condition which is very manageable and very treatable providing asthmatics take their condition seriously. This involves carrying their inhalers with them most places they travel, knowing what to do in case of an asthma attack…

We're all different, that goes without saying. We all like a different variety of things and we'll do that in different ways. We'll all work different jobs and live different lives and most strikingly of all, we've all come from somewhere…

There are five main factors which can trigger an asthmatic attack and as such be avoided or at least prepared for by asthma sufferers. Remember if you can’t avoid the factor then make sure you’ve got your inhaler on you at all times to…

Asthma is an inflammatory condition in which a patients body will react negatively to outside stimuli, causing inflammation of the airways, difficulty breathing and then potentially death. There are lots of ways to managed the symptoms of…

We sometimes overlook rather obvious things. It's not entirely our fault, our minds are conditioned to think a certain way and it can be very difficult for us to put two and two together when we don't realise we're sat in a Maths class.…

We all know that fast food isn't good for us. Hell, fast food knows it's not good for us. It keeps trying to be a little bit better for us but it's hard to taste as good as it does, be as cheap and as quick as it is while staying healthy.…

We can be a grimy lot, or at least we can according to a new study. It turns out that the spotless, prim and proper English person might well be a bit of a thing of the past and that in actuality we're a bit lazy and more than happy to…

Asthma itself is a nasty condition to have. It's chronic and it changes the way you'll have to live your life in that you'll need to carry an inhaler at all times or risk death at the hands of an asthmatic attack. In the times before such…

There are all sorts of external factors which effect us every day. Most of them we won't even notice and for those of us who don't suffer from asthma or hay fever things like the daily pollen count will never be important and as such, we'll…

Did you know that we share our homes with all manner of creatures? Not only are the spiders and other bugs hiding in the cracks and crevices, there are dust mites in the carpets or the bed sheets. They're mostly harmless and feed on our…

You must never take what the generic press says about healthcare at its face value. The jobs of writers who work for the major papers is to bring in reads by the bucket full with snappy and often outrageous headlines. This is great for…

Asthma’s a disorder we understand in a lot of ways, it’s fairly common and as such doctors have a lot of experience in treating it, especially in kids. What’s fairly unique about asthma as a chronic condition is that it’s very much affected…

Asthma is one of those health concerns that just keep coming back for more. No matter how hard you try, your wellness will always be a little bit affected by the respiratory condition, and that’s extremely frustrating. Still, you can…

Air pollution is discussed a great deal by the media and as a general rule, we’re against it. Strangely, even though it’s so widely heard of and understood, it’s slightly surprising to think of it actually affecting us. We think of it as…

If you’re going to affect a change in another human being which lasts then you’re going to want to make that change at a young age. Not only are children more malleable mentally at that age, they’re also still developing physically. We have…

A pulmonary embolism is a blockage caused in one of the arteries in the lungs. It generally occurs when arterial plaque or a clot breaks away from the veins in the legs. The clots that form in the legs are known as deep vein thrombosis and…

Asthma is a fairly understood and easily managed condition in its less severe cases, provided sufferers take adequate precautions in their day to day lives they’re able to function just like anyone else. It’s a respiratory disorder which,…

Asthma is a condition which can be exacerbated or indeed, brought on by the environment. Excessive exposure to allergens can be a defining factor in someone contracting asthma and those who suffer from either eczema or hay fever are much…

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Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency is a hereditary disorder which is most common amongst those of European decent and occurs in around one in 2500 people. It’s not a common disorder and as such it’s not diagnosed often. Due to its unfamiliar…

An asthma attack is when symptoms are worse than usual. They can come on suddenly and can be mild, moderate or severe. What happens during an asthma attack? The muscles around your airways tighten up, narrowing the airway.…

The most common treatment for those who suffer from recurring bouts of asthma attacks and asthma in general is the use of corticosteroids in the form of an inhaler. This device jets the drugs into the patients lungs and when the come into…

One of the wonderful things about the modern age is that people can have children much later in life and things like poor levels of fertility need no longer constrain your likelihood of conceiving. The joy of raising children is open to…