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LMH offers asthma, seasonal allergies education
The Newark Advocate NEWARK – Seasonal changes, as well as other environmental triggers, often bring unwanted and sometimes frightening symptoms for those who suffer from allergies and asthma. Allergies result when the body overreacts to elements in the environment. |
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CTV News |
Warm weather brings seasonal dangers for those with asthma and allergies
CTV News FREDERICTON — A New Brunswick woman is sounding the alarm about the dangers of allergies at this time of year, a warning validated by the province's Lung Association. Elizabeth Doherty calls it her laundry list – basically, a constant struggle to breathe. |
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The Independent |
8 Surprising Facts About Asthma and Seasonal Allergies
U.S. News & World Report But those obvious triggers aren't the only thing making you sneeze and rub your eyes. Ever wonder why you can't catch your breath during a thunderstorm – or why your lips itch after biting into a pear? Read on, and then prepare to wow with your asthma … Asthma and hay fever suffers can help scientists tackle conditions by sharing symptoms in #BritainBreathing app Beekeepers say honey can help with allergies Why allergy season is getting longer, more intense |
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Study on reducing seasonal asthma attacks in children
HNGnews.com A previous ICAC study found that adding year-round treatment with omalizumab (brand name Xolair) to guidelines-based asthma care decreased the number of seasonal episodes of worsening asthma, with the most striking effects observed during the fall. |
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Bel Marra Health |
Asthma in winter: Cold weather can trigger asthma attacks, seasonal allergies
Bel Marra Health Asthma in winter: Cold weather can trigger asthma attacks, seasonal allergies Asthma in the winter can trigger asthma attacks and seasonal allergies. The cold winter air can be an asthmatic's worst nightmare as it makes it far more difficult to breathe. |
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Study suggests new way to reduce seasonal asthma attacks in high-risk children
La Crosse Tribune Adding targeted and short-term use of the drug omalizumab to guidelines-directed treatment just before the start of school cut in half the number of autumn asthma attacks, or exacerbations, in high-risk children. The findings are part of a clinical … |
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Seasonal allergies can make asthma worse
Good4Utah If people experience worsening asthma symptoms due to their allergies, they can try to avoid allergen exposure ( if animals or dust etc.) and/or treat with nose sprays (nasal steroids), antihistamines. Additionally, to treat the asthma symptoms they … Fragrances may trigger allergies |
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Seasonal triggers bring on asthma
Seacoastonline.com Asthma makes it harder to move air in and out of your lungs. When you breathe, air passes through your nose and down your throat into your lungs. Inside the lungs are branching tubes called airways. With asthma, the airways are often swollen and red … |
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Related Articles |
Cytokine profile of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from a mouse model of bronchial asthma during seasonal H1N1 infection.
Cytokine. 2014 Jul 3;69(2):206-210
Authors: Hasegawa S, Wakiguchi H, Okada S, Gui Kang Y, Fujii N, Hasegawa M, Hasegawa H, Ainai A, Atsuta R, Shirabe K, Toda S, Wakabayashi-Takahara M, Morishima T, Ichiyama T
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Several studies support the role of viral infections in the pathogenesis of asthma exacerbation. However, several pediatricians believe that influenza virus infection does not exacerbate bronchial asthma, except for influenza A H1N1 2009 pandemic [A(H1N1)pdm09] virus infection. We previously reported that A(H1N1)pdm09 infection possibly induces severe pulmonary inflammation or severe asthmatic attack in a mouse model of bronchial asthma and in asthmatic children. However, the ability of seasonal H1N1 influenza (H1N1) infection to exacerbate asthmatic attacks in bronchial asthma patients has not been previously reported, and the differences in the pathogenicity profiles, such as cytokine profiles, remains unclear in bronchial asthma patients after A(H1N1)pdm09 and H1N1 infections.
METHODS: The cytokine levels and viral titers in the bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid from mice with and without asthma after H1N1 infection (A/Yamagata and A/Puerto Rico strains) were compared.
RESULTS: The interleukin (IL)-6, IL-10, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-?, IL-5, interferon (IFN)-?, IFN-?, and IFN-? levels were significantly higher in the BAL fluids from the control/H1N1 mice than from the asthmatic/H1N1 mice. The viral titers in the BAL fluid were also significantly higher in the control/H1N1mice than in the asthmatic/H1N1 mice infected with either A/Yamagata or A/Puerto Rico.
CONCLUSIONS: A(H1N1)pdm09 infection, but not H1N1 infection, can induce severe pulmonary inflammation through elevated cytokine levels in a mouse model of asthma.
PMID: 24998935 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]
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Seasonal Allergies and Asthma
About – News & Issues If you have seasonal allergies and asthma you need to consider a number of different options to treat your asthma. There are both medical treatments and trigger avoidance techniques that may help you improve your asthma. You do not need to be miserable … |
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