Articles, tagged with "causes of asthma", page 6
21st February 2008
The asthma is caused by airway hyper responsiveness to various stimuli such as a virus, allergen and exercise. The asthma affected 17.3 million individuals in the United States and 150 million worldwide. It is more seen in the children's.
This is not cu...
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Author:
Rachel Broune
11th February 2008
Asthma is a chronic disease that affects your airways. The airways are the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs. The muscles of the bronchial walls tighten, and cells in the lungs produce extra mucus further narrowing your airways. This can cause...
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Author:
Juliet Cohen
25th January 2008
A large percentage of the world's population suffers from back pain and almost every person might have experienced back pain at one point of life or the other. One of the most common causes of back pain is adopting incorrect sleeping postures or using an ...
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Author:
Mansi Gupta
22nd January 2008
Asthma is a chronic disease that affects your airways. The muscles of the bronchial walls tighten, and cells in the lungs produce extra mucus further narrowing your airways. This can cause minor wheezing to severe difficulty in breathing. Asthma affects m...
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Author:
Juliet Cohen
05th November 2007
The title is probably a bit misleading, because house dust mite is always going to be with us and we'll never truly be able to eradicate it from our homes. However with a little knowledge about them we can at least make life uncomfortable for them and kee...
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Author:
MJW
30th October 2007
Asthma is a chronic condition of the lung that cannot be cured completely but can be treated and controlled. Conventional and alternative medications both treat the symptoms and effectively control asthma. But alternative medications with their zero side ...
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Author:
Alien
02nd October 2007
Asthma occurs when the main air passages of your lungs, the bronchial tubes, become inflamed. This airway narrowing causes symptoms such as wheezing , shortness of breath , chest tightness, and coughing , which respond to bronchodilators. The inflammation...
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Author:
Juliet Cohen
26th August 2007
Asthma is one of the most common chronic conditions in the UK, affecting around five million people. The technical definition of asthma is a reversible airways disease which causes difficulty breathing. The word reversible is important and means that trea...
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Author:
Adam Singleton
07th August 2007
Asthma in Children
Asthma is a breathing problem that can start at any age, and it is one of the most common chronic diseases of childhood.
Statistics show that children under 18 years, having asthma is on the rise like an epidemic, and many others ...
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Author:
Alien
30th April 2007
Asthma is an ancient Greek word which means "panting or short drawn breath." It is the most troublesome of all the respiratory diseases. It affects twice as many boys as girls in childhood; more girls than boys in teenage and in adulthood, the ratio becom...
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Author:
Alien
18th December 2006
There's always seemed to be a suspicion of a link between asthma and allergies. Asthma, is a chronic illness characterized by inflammation of respiratory tubes that result in wheezing, a choking sensation and shortness of breath. A better understanding of...
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Author:
Abigail Franks
17th November 2006
Asthma is also influenced by certain emotions such as laughing, crying, anger, panic, etc. But many in the medical community believe there is no proof people with asthma are any more psychologically disturbed than their non-asthmatic peers. However, it is...
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Author:
Rudy Silva
16th November 2006
Love can be a very strong feeling that can survive any difficulty that comes to a relationship. Think carefully though when it comes to deciding if children are right for you if both you and your intended spouse have asthma. Hereditary issues can increa...
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Author:
Abigail Franks
28th September 2006
There are many causes of asthma and each person can have different asthma attack triggers. So, each person may need to use a different medical approach and different asthma natural remedies.
Using drugs to control your asthma makes sense when you firs...
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Author:
Rudy Silva