My husband who suffers from lupus has had occasional (every two/ three years) severe asthma attacks brough on by an allergic reaction or severe stress. David has been taking steroids for the past ...
Q:My seven year old son has had asthma since he was two. We have tried all the dietary approaches suggested in your pages, but he hasn't significantly improved. Do you have any other therapies w ...
Asthma sufferers who use beta-agonist inhalers run twice the risk of dying from a heart condition than those using other treatments. ...
Ventolin is a beta-2-agonist, usually taken by inhaler, that works by relaxing the muscles in the airways which tighten during an asthmatic attack. This medication is foisted on children
There has been a huge increase in asthma in Western countries since the early 1960s. Asthma currently kills nearly 2000 people a year in England and Wales yet in 1929, Conybeare's Textbook of Medi ...
Q:I read an article last week about the Russian Buteyko Breathing Reconditioning Technique now undergoing clinical trials in Australia. ...
Children who eschew many of the staples of modern medicine, such as vaccines and antibiotics, are less likely to develop atopic allergies, according to new Swedish research. ...
Your article entitled ‘Did steroids cause asthma?’ (WDDTY vol 14 no 6) was very interesting. Your response - that the patient’s 'asthma attack' was likely to have been an anaphylactic reaction to steroids
There's a wind of change in asthma treatment, or certainly as far as the marketing men are concerned. They've been sharpening their pencils to tell doctors about Seretide, a new asthma inhaler des ...
Both my daughter and son were born with a form of bronchial asthma which has caused a weakness in the lungs which renders them lacking in energy and sometimes depressed. I have tried many natural ...