Asthma attacks are common in children but the parents often do not realize it. Since the symptoms almost similar to flu, it is therefore difficult to distinguish by ordinary people. Asthma attack in children are very dangerous because it can leading to the death risk. The American Lung Association recommends for parents ...

Asthma can be relieved by medicines, but the exercise and diet programs that recognized as important in helping the treatment of asthma can also control the frequency and severity of asthma. What exactly happens during asthma attack? In general, asthma attack involves three major physiological changes. One is bronchospams, where irritation of the ...

Pregnancy is important periods in fetal development. However, in this period also they will often get magnetic field exposure to see the development of the fetus. In fact some of them received high magnetic field level. Furthermore, in the latest study, the researchers found that high levels of magnetic field exposure ...

An expert suggests to the clinicians to increase the rate of influenza vaccination among children with asthma because new study found that those patients are at high risk for flu complications and death incidences. The study results itself based on analysis of 2165 children (age of 2 to 17 years) during ...

A new study found that more than 50 million of asthma children indicated does not require antibiotic drugs. However, the researchers also found that about 16% of those patients are prescribed with antibiotic drugs with almost 50% by Macrolide and some other antibiotics such as Ketolide. After using multivariate analysis, the researchers ...

Any types of chronic lung disease that categorized with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) commonly make the patients hard to breathe. Although pharmacologically there is no cure for this disease, current inhaled medications for such patients already help them to treat the disease. However, this medications seem had adverse events that should ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), based on National Health Interview Survey 2009, 17.5 million of American adults and 7.1 million of American children currently have asthma. Meanwhile, a new study has found that people with asthma facing double risk of diabetes mellitus, 50% of them have ...

Asthma is chronic inflammatory disease of the airways that affect more than 20 million Americans, hundred thousands of hospitalization, and thousand deaths in US yearly. Those who experienced with wheezing, dyspnea or shortness of breathing, chest tightness, and coughing, then an ...

The immune system in young children may reduced because of early antibiotic exposure, particularly to broad-spectrum antibiotics during their 6 months of age. The reducing of this immune system in infants may produce anti-allergic response. With this condition, according to the researchers, that infants may develop the risk of asthma and ...

An estimated of 7% adult people and more than that percentage in the children having asthma in the United States, and it's incidence has been on the rise in recent decades for unknown reasons. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it now causes more than 13 million ...

Instead risk factors for developing wheezing or asthma in later childhood linked from vitamin D deficiency, domestic spray chemicals, and tobacco smoke exposure in pregnant women, a new suggestion said that acetaminophen and antibiotic used in prenatal can contribute to that risk too. All these environment factors that triggers epigenetic changes ...

There are three species of Rhinovirus included Human Rhinovirus (HRV) A, B, and C, which are most common viral infective agents in humans and common in cold causes. Although detailed information is currently restricted pending publication for HRV-C, however, most recently, the identification of HRV-C and its potential association with ...

In early clinical studies in severe and chronic asthma suggested that blocking the wide-ranging action of cytokine involved in systemic inflammation or tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) would be highly effective as a novel treatment, particularly to anti-inflammatory agent Etanercept. Etanercept is a drug that acting as TNF inhibitors to treats autoimmune ...

A significant difference of the frequency of asthma showed among young swimmers in outdoor pools than indoor pools. However, this prevalence mostly occur among girls but not to boys. Overall, according to the authors, the prevalence of asthma suspected by a chlorine used as primary chemical to disinfect pools. Presented at the ...

Asthma is chronic respiratory disease that characterized by wheezing, shortening of breathness, chest tightness, and coughing from constriction and mucuous-membrane swelling in the air passageways in the lungs (bronchi). The causes that can trigger the asthma more common related to allergy and respiratory infection. Other causes may included smoke exposure especially ...

People living with asthma will feel that the quality of life will also be affected. Asthma can even be life-threatening. But, by knowing the things that needed to overcome it, asthma actually could be managed. Here are 10 tips on managing asthma to reduce the suffering caused by this disease. 1. Know what ...

How probiotic may prevent asthma? Systemic inflammation that often resulted by severe asthma can caused by food allergies. Therefore, as probiotics can help deal with food allergies and calming the inflammation including helping to eliminate many health problem (such as skin conditions and intestinal disorders), it can turn it out. In children, asthma ...