articles about asthma & associated conditions
This section contains articles about asthma written by doctors, specialists, journalists and individuals from professional bodies and organisations. To read a specific article, click on the underlined heading.
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New data from Asthma UK shows that hundreds of thousands of children with asthma are struggling to access life-saving medicine in school emergencies because of needless red tape ... |
A new study supports previous findings that children delivered by caesarean section have an increased risk of developing asthma. The study from the Norwegian Mother ... |
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has received warning of possible bacterial bacterial contamination in batches of the saline nasal spray Sterimar Isotonic 100ml ... |
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Delayed asthma attacks |
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| BBC News has reported that scientists have “stumbled on a potential new treatment for delayed asthma attacks”. Delayed attacks, also known as late asthmatic response ... | Women with poorly managed asthma have a higher chance of giving birth early or having a small baby reported BBC News. This news is based on a systematic review looking ... | Pregnant women who use hairdryers, microwaves, vacuum cleaners or who live near pylons could be putting their babies at risk of asthma,” reported the Daily Mail ... | ||
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| Childhood asthma linked to depression during pregnancy |
Childhood asthma linked to depression during pregnancy, inner-city African-American, hispanic families at risk. “Approximately 70 percent of mothers who said they experienced high levels of anxiety or depression while they were pregnant reported their child had wheezed before age 5,” said Marilyn Reyes, lead author of the study ... |
| Link between asthma and exposure to air pollution |
Long term exposure to air pollution is strongly linked to uncontrolled asthma, suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. The findings held true irrespective of risk factors traditionally associated with worsening or poorly controlled asthma, such as smoking, weight and use of inhaled corticosteroids ... |
| Vitamin A deficiency does not affect onset of asthma |
Vitamin A deficiency does not increase the risk of asthma, according to new research published online in the European Respiratory Journal. In developing countries, vitamin A deficiency is particularly common and previous research has shown that it harms the development of the lungs. This study aimed to assess whether vitamin A deficiency ... |
| Heightened immunity to colds makes asthma flare ups worse |
Tempering the immune response - rather than enhancing it - in asthma patients might be a better strategy when combating cold symptoms. People often talk about “boosting” their immunity to prevent and fight colds. Nutritional supplements, cold remedies and fortified foods claim to ward off colds by augmenting the immune system ... |
| Breakthrough in allergic asthma treatments to put squeeze on sneeze |
A major breakthrough in creating effective new treatments for allergic asthma has been discovered by Asthma UK funded scientists at King's College London. The discovery is the culmination of over fifteen years of Asthma UK-funded research, and the findings are published today in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ... |
| Allergy vaccine is nothing to sneeze at |
Monash University researchers are working on a vaccine that could completely cure asthma brought on by house dust mite allergies. If successful, the vaccine would have the potential to cure sufferers in two to three doses. Allergies to house dust mites is a leading cause of asthma and the respiratory condition affects more than 2 million Australians ... |
| Paracetamol in pregnancy linked to asthma |
“Pregnant women who take paracetamol could be increasing the risk of their child developing asthma,” the Daily Express has reported. The news is based on a review that systematically combined the findings from six previous studies examining whether paracetamol use in pregnancy is associated with asthma in early childhood. It should be noted that the review ... |
| Herbal medicine practitioners are to be regulated |
The College of Medicine today welcomed the announcement of statutory regulation for herbal practitioners. The College of Medicine believes that statutory regulation is vital if UK herbal practitioners are to continue to practise and prescribe in compliance with new EU regulations. This decision will ensure good practice and the provision of safe products for the thousands ... |
| Microbes on farms protect against child asthma |
| Children who grow up on farms are less likely to suffer from asthma than other rural children. A large-scale study now indicates that this may be due to differences in the spectrum of microbes the two groups are likely to encounter, suggesting that certain microorganisms may protect against the disease. Microbes help children to breathe easily – Bacteria and fungi offer ... |
| Living near busy roadways ups chances of allergic asthma |
| An international team of lung experts has new evidence from a study in shantytowns near Lima, Peru, that teens living immediately next to a busy roadway have increased risk of allergies and asthma. The odds can go up by 30 percent for developing allergies to dust mites, pet hairs and mold, and can double for having actual asthma symptoms, such as wheezing and using ... |
| Reducing the effect of asthma on ethnic minority children |
Professors Mark Johnson and Lorraine Culley from the Mary Seacole Research Centre at De Montfort University (DMU) and Dr Monica Lakhanpaul from the University of Leicester and Leicester Community Children’s Services are working with Asthma UK to discover the reasons why children from ethnic minority groups are more likely to have poorly controlled asthma ... |
| Antibiotic use in infancy may increase risk of asthma |
Children who receive antibiotics within the first six months of life are at a significantly increased risk of developing asthma and allergies by 6 years of age, even without a genetic predisposition, new research by the Yale School of Public Health suggests. The findings are reported online in the American Journal of Epidemiology ... |
| New asthma research breaks the mould |
| Scientists investigating the allergic reactions that asthmatics suffer towards a common mould have discovered that many people with asthma actually had the mould growing in their own lungs. The research led by University of Leicester scientists at Glenfield Hospital has been published in the December 2010 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory ... |
| Asthma UK Comment on Final NICE Determination on Xolair |
| Dr Mike Thomas, Chief Medical Adviser to Asthma UK, said: ‘Hundreds of children across England with the most severe, allergic asthma will now be denied a pioneering treatment that could free them from crippling daily asthma symptoms, endless trips to hospital and huge amounts of time off school ... |
| Discrimination faced by people with severe asthma |
| The shocking and widespread discrimination faced by people with severe asthma across the UK is revealed today (15th July) in a major new report called Fighting for Breath, by Asthma UK and the Severe Asthma National Network (SANN). Many of the people interviewed for the report face frequent prejudice because of their severe asthma, due to ignorance about how ... |
| Allergy jab for hay fever, asthma & eczema |
| A jab that could help those suffering with hay fever, asthma and eczema could be available within a few years. It's being claimed that the "one size fits all" injection could help ward off multiple allergies and make the lives of many thousands of people more bearable and give them a better quality of life ... |
| Lifestyle regime could prevent asthma |
| Prevention is better than cure, so they say. British researchers from the David Hide Asthma & Allergy Centre in the Isle of Wight after studying children since 1990 have found that it could be possible to prevent asthma in those at high risk by avoiding certain foods and dust mites in the first few months of life ... |
| Cleaning sprays can trigger asthma |
| Cleaning sprays, chlorine bleach and disinfectants may be contributing to the rise in asthma at home and work, according to Dr Jan-Paul Zock, an expert in occupational asthma. There is growing evidence that exposure to some cleaning products can provoke respiratory disorders and make existing asthma worse, but that it is preventable ... |
| Overweight and wheezy: asthma link to obesity |
| The association between obesity and heart disease, diabetes and cancer is well known, but more recently it has emerged that obese children and adults are more prone to developing asthma. The more overweight a person is, the more difficult it is to treat the asthma, according to a Canadian expert ... |
| Public ignorance putting children with asthma at risk |
| Shocking new data released by Asthma UK on World Asthma Day (4 May) suggests that 88% of UK adults would not be completely confident about what to do if a child with asthma in their care had an asthma attack. The lack of public awareness about asthma was highlighted by the inquest into the death of 11 year old Samuel Linton, from Stockport ... |
| House dust mite sensitisation study in children with asthma |
| A recent study undertaken by the Department of Pediatrics in Singapore suggests that sensitisation to house dust mites is highly prevalent among the young atopic population in Singapore. The aim of the study was to compare the sensitisation profiles between children with asthma and those with eczema to D. pteronyssinus and B. tropicalis and their allergens ... |
| Scientists crack peanut code In children |
| Clinicians and scientists at UHSM (University Hospital South Manchester), the University of Manchester, and Phadia AB in Uppsala, Sweden have developed a new and significantly more accurate blood test for peanut allergy , which predicts whether an allergic reaction to peanuts will develop with more than 95 per cent certainty ... |
| House dust mite avoidance |
| House dust is the major cause of allergy in persons with year long runny or blocked nose and/or sneezing. In addition to these allergic reactions, dust can trigger asthma, night coughs and irritant eyes and exacerbate eczema. A speck of dust may contain fabric fibres, human skin bacteria, animal danders, pollen grains, mould spores, food particles and mites ... |
| Bathroom showers may deliver face full of pathogens |
| While daily bathroom showers provide invigorating relief and a good cleansing for millions of Americans, they also can deliver a face full of potentially pathogenic bacteria, according to a surprising new University of Colorado at Boulder study. The researchers used high-tech instruments and lab methods to analyze roughly 50 showerheads from nine cities ... |
| Parental stress & children's risk of developing asthma link |
| Children with stressed out parents may be more susceptible to developing asthma associated with environmental triggers such as high levels of traffic-related pollution and tobacco smoke, according to a new study led by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) ... |
| Teacher ignorance is putting children with asthma at risk |
| A disturbing three quarters of teachers are not completely confident about what to do if a child in their class has a potentially life-threatening asthma attack, yet asthma is the most common long-term condition affecting children in the UK and on average there are two children with asthma in every classroom ... |
| Low intake of vitamins A & C boosts asthma risk |
| A relatively low dietary intake of vitamins A and C boosts the risk of asthma, suggests a systematic analysis of the available evidence, published ahead of print in the journal Thorax. Observational studies in recent years point to a link between dietary antioxidant vitamins (A,C, and E) and asthma, but the results of clinical trials have proved inconclusive ... |
| Babies born in pollen season more likely to get asthma |
| Newborns whose first few months of life coincide with high pollen and mold seasons are at increased risk of developing early symptoms of asthma, suggests a study led by researchers at the University of California. The study results, may help shed light on why babies born in the fall and winter appear to have a higher risk of eventually developing asthma than other children ... |
| Fungal pill could provide asthma relief for UK sufferers |
| Up to 300,000 people suffering from severe asthma in the UK could benefit from taking antifungal medication already available from pharmacists, new research has found. University of Manchester scientists found that pills used to treat everyday fungal infections greatly improved symptoms of asthma in those patients that had an allergic reaction to one or more fungi ... |
| Immunotherapy alleviates hay fever and asthma |
| Taking one grass pollen tablet every day can alleviate hay fever and asthma in children. These are the results of a study by medical experts in the team led by Prof. Dr. Albrecht Bufe (Experimental Pneumology) at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. The study was carried out jointly with national colleagues and featured 253 children ... |
| Respiratory disease breakthrough for researchers |
| Researchers in Sheffield have made a major breakthrough in understanding why respiratory disease is so common in young children. Experts at Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust have spent more than ten years investigating the impact of Acute Bronchiolitis and the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in babies ... |
| Techniques to help people with asthma breathe easy |
| New research funded by Asthma UK, shows that breathing techniques can help to treat people who continue to experience asthma symptoms in spite of current drug treatments. Dr Mike Thomas has shown that breathing exercises taught by a physiotherapist could work alongside asthma medicines to treat symptoms in people who have difficultly controlling their asthma ... |
| Use of paracetamol in early life increases risk of asthma |
| Use of paracetamol in the first year of life in later childhood, is associated with risk of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis (RC), and eczema at age 6-7 years. This is the conclusion of an article in an Asthma Special Issue of The Lancet, by lead author Professor Richard Beasley, Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, and colleagues ... |
| Farm exposure in utero protects against asthma |
| An increasing number of studies have shown a reduced risk of allergies, hay fever, asthma and eczema in farmers' children and adolescents. Until recently it was believed that these protective effects primarily arise from exposures during the first years of life. The authors of a recent study confirm that symptoms and eczema are less common in farmers' children ... |
| Asthma on the job |
| Could you actually be allergic to work? If you experience symptoms of allergies or asthma in the workplace, you may suffer from occupational asthma. This disorder is defined as reversible airflow obstruction caused by inhaling various harmful substances while "on the job", according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) ... |
| Mothers' stress may increase children's asthma |
| Children whose mothers are chronically stressed during their early years have a higher asthma rate than their peers, regardless of their income, gender or other known asthma risk factors. The findings appear in the second issue for January of the American Journal or Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, published by the American Thoracic Society ... |
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