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Letters: Ozone endangers children with asthma
Philly.com Ground-level ozone is a powerful pollutant that can trigger dangerous health consequences, including asthma attacks and heart attacks ("Linking environmental, public health," May 15). Doctors see patients' physical distress when ozone levels are high. |
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Health Tip: Create an Asthma Action Plan
Philly.com (HealthDay News) — An asthma action plan can help people with asthma handle an attack quickly and safely. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends: Creating the action plan with your doctor's assistance. Including in your plan … |
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Understanding 'exercise-induced asthma' in kids
Philly.com (blog) Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) or “exercise-induced asthma” is a well-established condition with strict diagnostic criteria.The diagnosis is established by changes in lung function which are provoked by exercise, and is not based on symptoms. |
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Kids With Asthma, Allergies May Face Higher Heart Risk Factors: Study
Philly.com 8, 2015 (HealthDay News) — A new study suggests that kids with asthma or allergies like hay fever may face as much as a doubling of their risk of high blood pressure and high cholesterol — even if they aren't overweight. However, the risk to any one … Childhood Allergies Could Signal Heart Disease Risk Children with common allergies have twice heart disease risk |
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Add Asthma, Allergy Plans to Your Back-to-School List
Philly.com SATURDAY, Aug. 1, 2015 (HealthDay News) — If your child has asthma or allergies, make sure his or her teacher, principal and school nurse know about it as part of your back-to-school planning, the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology … |
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Q&A: Childhood asthma
Philly.com For a child with mild intermittent asthma (symptoms less than twice a week), the doctor typically will prescribe an inhaler to prevent or relieve the symptoms. If symptoms are more frequent, moderate, severe, or persistent, the doctor will prescribe … |
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Addressing Phila. asthma crisis
Philly.com For nearly two decades, Tyra Bryant-Stephens has worked to lessen the asthma crisis among children in Philadelphia neighborhoods where rates of the potentially deadly condition far outstrip the national average. In 1997, the physician at Children's … |
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Youth Health Magzine |
Work-Related Asthma Affects Millions of U.S. Adults: CDC
Philly.com Almost 16 percent of American adults with asthma either developed the condition on the job or have asthma symptoms made worse by conditions in their workplace, said Dr. Jacek Mazurek, lead author of a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease … CDC Says Work-Related Asthma Is Common |
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Diagnosing asthma with a single drop of blood
Philly.com (Inside Science TV) – When coughing, wheezing, and the trouble of breathing hits, people with asthma reach for an inhaler. But being diagnosed with asthma isn't easy. Patients don't always have symptoms by the time they get to a doctor. There are blood … |
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What resources can help me manage my child's asthma?
Philly.com (blog) Today's guest blogger is Tyra Bryant-Stephens, MD, Director and Founder of The Community Asthma Prevention Program at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. It's easy to feel alone when your child has asthma. Long nights in the emergency room and … 'Recurrent cough and cold in children are signs of asthma' Does your child suffer from recurrent cough and cold? It could be a sign of asthma |
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