All About Asthma All About Asthma What is asthma? Asthma is a chronic, inflammatory disease in which the airways become sensitive to allergens (any substance that triggers an allergic reaction). Several things happen to the airways when a child is exposed to certain triggers: The lining of the airways become swollen and inflamed. The muscles that surround the airways tighten. The production of mucus in increased, leading to mucus plugs.
Allergy and Asthma Network- Mothers of Asthma, Inc AAN-MA is the nationwide community-based nonprofit health organization dedicated to eliminating morbidity and mortality due to asthma and allergies through education, advocacy, community outreach, and research.
Annotated Resources for Asthma These asthma resources have been carefully selected to assist parents of babies and children who are adopted, have special needs or were born premature, to find the information and support they need to care for their children.
Asthma Children's Medical Center of the University of Virginia offers children the answers to What is Asthma, Why it occurs, what are it's Symptons, and more.
Asthma -- General Information Welcome to alt.support.asthma! This newsgroup provides a forum for the discussion of asthma, its symptoms, causes, and forms of treatment. Please note that postings to alt.support.asthma are intended to be for discussion purposes only and are in no way to be construed as medical advice. Asthma is a serious medical condition requiring direct supervision by a physician. This FAQ attempts to answer the most frequently asked questions about asthma on the newsgroup alt.support.asthma. It was compiled by Patricia Wrean, prwrean@sfu.ca and is currently maintained by Marie Goldenberg, mwg@radix.net. The Asthma Medications FAQ is also posted monthly as a companion to this one. For information about allergies, please see the alt.support.asthma FAQ: Allergies -- General Information (still under construction), and its companion posting, the Allergy Medications FAQ.
Asthma Allergies Children Clear Breathing Children of all ages can be diagnosed with Asthma and Allergies. Our Frequently Asked Questions can provide parents answers to their questions about caring for their children with allergies. From infants to preschoolers to school-age children, our tips for parents can help deal with the issues involving asthma and allergies in children.
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of California The Southern California Chapter of the Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA), is dedicated to controlling and curing asthma and allergic diseases for millions of sufferers in Southern California.
Asthma and Allergy Information from Clearbreathing.com Living with asthma or allergic disease is a challenge we'll help you meet. Find out how asthma and allergies affect you. If you are a teen, a working adult or a parent, you need to know all you can about the causes and triggers of the allergic response. Join our Clearbreathing Club to stay current on recent developments. Clearbreathing.com, the definitive source for asthma and allergy information and treatment, brought to you by Genentech and Novartis.
Asthma in Children Food allergy is a common and often neglected cause of asthma in children. In a group of 320 allergic children with eczema, 55% had asthma. Food challenges triggered respiratory symptoms in 59% of including nose congestion, laryngeal edema, wheezing, and shortness of breath. Gastrointestinal symptoms occurred in 41% of positive challenges. Asthma is increasing world-wide and higher numbers of deaths from asthma in affluent countries worry authorities. The Center for Disease Control in Canada reported a threefold increase of asthmatic deaths over 20 years, mostly in teenagers and young adults.
Asthma in Children Welcome to the website devoted exclusively to Child Asthma, one of the most common conditions affecting children globally. The very purpose of this website is to relieve the chest distress of children and the panic attacks of the parents as well.
Asthma Learning Lab We are dedicated to helping you face the challenge of asthma head-on and get back to living your life the way you want.
Asthma Management and Prevention Review environmental exposures that can lead to the onset of asthma and environmental exposures that can cause an asthma attack.
Asthma Management Model System The Asthma Management Model System is an information management tool designed to facilitate science-based decisionmaking and evidence-based medicine in long-term asthma management.
Asthma Queensland Asthma Queensland is a registered charity that relies on community funding to provide the services that will assist people to manage their asthma more effectively. Our funding is derived by gifts from members, donors, fundraising activities, bequests, art unions and recycled clothing.
Asthma-Resources The resources listed here have been carefully selected and reviewed to assist parents to find the information and support they need to care for their children. Special emphasis is on resources for parents of children who are adopted, have special needs or where born premature.
AsthmaMoms AsthmaMoms includes information on managing asthma in school to controlling asthma triggers in your home to the legal angle that asthma is considered a disability.
Back Pack Adventures Welcome to the asthma camp at BackpackAdventures.com! Where kids play and learn about trigger & medication management.
Books About Asthma Books about asthma. Mostly for patients and family, both adults and children. A few for professionals.
Breath of Life PEOPLE EVERYWHERE IN EVERY AGE have struggled with asthma in different ways, but the feeling of breathlessness remains central to the disease. Today, asthma is a serious, widespread problem affecting an estimated 15 million people in the United States. But what is asthma? Who has asthma and why? Have its prevalence and impact grown dramatically in our time? Can it be managed, prevented, or cured? How do people cope with asthma? This excellent site by the National Library of medicine looks at famous (including John F. Kennedy) people who had and dealt well with asthma.
Breathing Easy: Solutions in Pediatric Asthma Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood and is responsible for significant morbidity and health care expenditures,a. The prevalence of asthma, especially pediatric asthma, has increased dramatically in the United States since 1980. The rate of asthma in children less than 5 years of age has risen by 160 percent over the past 15 years, and asthma is now considered a national epidemic1.
Childhood Asthma and Allergies: Frequently Asked Questions For people with asthma, it is important for them to be aware of the high expectations that should be expected from appropriate control of asthma. If they are having symptoms that interfere with sleep or activity, cause urgent care requirements or hospitalization, or having side effects from medication, they should discuss this with their doctor and consider seeking an additional medical opinion can help from an asthma specialist if they are not already seeing one.
Clubhouse Asthma On this page you will find an interactive demo of one of the scenes on the "Clubhouse Kids Learn About Asthma" CD-ROM.
Do You Have a Healthly Home? Environmental studies have shown that the air inside the average family home is often more polluted than the air outdoors. This is problematic when you consider that the average American is indoors nearly 90 percent of the time, 65 percent of that time being spent in their home. Here, the National Safety Council explains how to recognize, remove and control indoor pollutants for a healthier home.
Global Initiative for Asthma Latest World Health Organization and NIH guidelines for asthma management for health professionals and patients.
Guide For Parents of Children With Asthma When your child has an asthma attack, it can be a very scary time. Some parents feel that they do not know enough about how to treat asthma or help their child during an attack. This booklet gives some very basic information about asthma, what it is, how it is treated, and how you, as the parent of an asthmatic child, can better deal with the attacks as they happen.
Guide offers tips on spotting asthma in children The guide, "Pediatric Asthma: Promoting Best Practice Guide for Managing Asthma in Children," has recommendations endorsed by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's National Asthma Education and Prevention Program, the Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunolgy. The guide is adapted from the NHLBI's 1997 Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma.
How to Take Asthma Medicines When you, your child, and your doctor work together as a team, your child's asthma can be controlled! It is important for you to learn as much as you can about asthma. After all, aren't you the asthma expert who takes care of your child each day?
Illustrated Guide to Asthma Conditions and what causes it. List systems, tells how it is diagnosed, and explores treatment options.
Noattacks.org Public service campaign to educate parents about childhood asthma.
The Asthma Wizard Asthma Wizard to learn about asthma, symptoms, what makes it worse, and other important topics about asthma.
Which Children Get Asthma? Asthma has dramatically increased in the last few decades and is rising most rapidly in children under age four. Results from a recent survey indicate that more than 7% of American children between the ages of five and 14 have asthma
Allergy Asthma Technology Welcome to Allergy Asthma Technology, a site dedicated to helping reduce exposure to allergens as simply and effectively as possible. Inside you will find medically tested and approved allergy and asthma prevention products, located in the Product Guide, as well as extensive health information on causes, diagnoses, and treatments of allergy and asthma.
Asthma-Friendly Childcare Checklist Offering a childcare setting that provides a healthy environment for children with allergies is easier with the help of a free checklist and Child Care Asthma Action Card from the New England Chapter of the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
ezGuide 2 asthma If you are looking for in depth information about asthma, then you have come to the right place. Just head over to our articles section and you're on your way to becoming an expert.
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feelWell Online Family Health Journals feelWell Online is an easy, fast, and secure incident reporting service that provides password-protected online journals to accurately keep track of personal and family health incidents, life events, and medical procedures from anywhere, at anytime. feelWell Online makes it easier to discover trends and patterns in hundreds of events, identifies potential cause and effect relationships between events, and helps family caregivers to protect their children, parents, spouses, and loved ones from sudden health complications.
School Asthma Allergy SchoolAsthmaAllergy.com provides accurate, current and useful tools and information to empower all those caring for school-aged children with asthma and allergies.
