If you suspect that certain foods trigger wheezing or asthma symptoms in your child, your first action should be a consultation with your pediatrician to determine the exact inventory of foods your child is allergies to. The doctor will probably refer you to a pediatric allergist, or may carry out the tests him-or herself to identify your child’s reactive foods. (more…)

Oral allergy syndrome is one form of allergy that body have allergic reaction to fruits and vegetables. Based on statistics facts, The American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology described that probably one third of people allergic to pollen may can extend and develop to oral allergy syndrome. As a matter of fact, not only pollen and fruits allergy are related, but pollen allergy can lead into the oral allergy to certain fruits and vegetables. (more…)

Up to 85% of asthmatics patients have symptoms of wheezing during or after exercise. Moreover, many patients diagnosed with allergies or asthma have family allergy history and bronchospasm. Bronchospasm or a bronchial spasm is a sudden constriction of the muscles in the walls of the bronchioles. Bronchospasm is one of the condition or tightness of the airways caused by exercise. (more…)

Sulfur Dioxide

The effects of SO2 have been extensively reviewed. Total emergency room visits for respiratory problems and increased hospital admission rates have been linked with increased ambient exposure to SO2. In children, decreased lung function has been linked to increases in ambient sulfur dioxide levels and the likelihood (more…)

Allergy and asthma plague many of us. People suffer from various allergies that are caused by food, dust, and sometimes flowers. This is a situation where our immune system reacts to some natural substances and causes discomfort. Asthma on the other hand happens when the bronchial muscles get tensed making the windpipe congested and resulting in breathing problems. (more…)

I don’t know if anyone else has thought of doing this after being exposed to a cologne-doused coworkers or colleagues in your office or job’s environment. People are reluctant to complain to management or HR about problems like this, figuring nothing will be done.

Well, there is strength in numbers you know. If you don’t have immediate numbers of friends with breathing problems you can call on to complain along with you, (more…)

Asthma is a disease marked by wheezing, coughing, and difficulty in breathing. It is a form of allergy, a physical reaction of some persons to substances that are harmless to other people. An asthma patient becomes short of breath during attacks. The lining of the nasal passages swells, and spasms occur in the bronchial muscles.

Substances that cause asthma or other allergies are called allergens. Allergens may be taken into the body by being inhaled or swallowed. (more…)

Do you have occupational asthma or the condition where your asthma is triggered or even worsen when you are in your office or job? You are not alone in this situation. More than 10 million workers are exposed to allergens agents in their work environment, based on data from the Occupational Safety & Health Administration. Occupational asthma or work asthma or workplace asthma related to job/work is about 15 % from all kind of asthma altogether. Are you one of them? (more…)

Many people are under impression that allergy and asthma disease had genetic or heredity factors playing major role as medium of transferred. If parents have allergy, then there is a big chances that their kids will and soon develop allergy in some stage of their live. Some even elaborate this heredity factors to other closed family relatives. (more…)