Classification of Asthma & Chronic Airway Obstruction

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Classification of bronchial asthma can be based on age, etiology, associated characteristics, or severity. Classifications based on severity have been primarily designed as an approach to asthma treatment. Thus, management of mild intermittent disease may require only bronchodilator treatment, but frequent attacks with or without persistent mild symptoms require a comprehensive approach to controlling inflammation as well as bronchodilator treatment. Severe asthma can become a major clinical problem that requires specialist care and many different approaches to asthma attack treatment. (more…)

Emergency Asthma Medications - Should Your Kids Carry Them to School?

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Many kids’ deaths in the United States over the years happened both in schools and children camps because of lack of access to basic essential medicines for asthma.

In Massachusetts, a law passed recently that allows students and children with asthma and allergies to bring along emergency (more…)

More Than Medicine To Manage Asthma: Peak Flow Meter and Regular Checkups

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It is important that you understand what asthma medicine to flare up so that you can treat your asthma. Knowing how to control your asthma can help you to have a successful treatment and keep your asthma under control. Controlling your or your loved one’s asthma isn’t as difficult as it sounds. The basics of asthma treatment is actually pretty simple.

Let me tell you about my own asthma management story. For many years, I tried to treat my asthma with just rescue inhalers. Rescue inhalers would take care of the problem in the short term. It made the wheezing the difficulty breathing go away, but they didn’t treat the actual cause of my breathing problems. (more…)