What's all this about an asthma trigger?

An asthma trigger is some kind of environmental element that brings on an asthma attack. When you come into contact with a certain element, an allergic reaction takes place and makes your airways narrow. Because no two cases of asthma are exactly alike, you have to learn which kind of triggers are best to avoid and which are bearable for you. Sometimes it may be very difficult to pinpoint the trigger. This is when you need to put on your detective hat and go looking for clues.

Minimize exercise induced asthma

It has long been thought that a child or adult who is suffering from asthma should never exercise. The asthma kids at school had to sit on the bench watching while their friends who were asthma free had all the fun. While exercise induced asthma does exist, we now know that it is no where near as bad as we once thought it was.

Discover the alternative therapies for asthma

What did people do before the advent of global pharmaceutical companies? It's amazing anyone survived at all. But survive they did. Now I'm not one who usually goes in for conspiracy theories, but I have to say there is something extremely fishy about the drug industry. Are they really researching and developing new drugs for our benefit or theirs? What place do governments have in the drug market? Pharmaceutical companies actively work on new drugs to relieve the symptoms of illness, but what are they doing to actually cure them? I have a sneaky suspicion that they want to keep us all ill, keep us all drugged up to the eyeballs and keep us all coming back to buy more. Would it be the billion dollar industry it is otherwise? If you have asthma, you buy the drugs and try not to add up how much it is costing you each and every month. Sadly, there is no alternative. Or is there? Are there really alternative therapies for asthma? Your doctor will obviously say no. But then again he's part of the pharmaceutical company drug chain.

Pediatric asthma: Is it really that dangerous?

When you discover that your child is suffering from asthma your doctor will undoubtedly reach for the prescription book. If he is a particularly good doctor he might hand you a couple of leaflets on how best to cope during your child's asthma attack. What he probably won't do is mention the possible side effects of all the drugs your child is going to start taking. And taking. And taking. Do you really want your kids to have go through this day after day? Isn't there a better way? There is. Pediatric asthma does not have to begin and end with drugs. Drugs which could cause more harm in the longer term than good.

Zoey asthma: Teaching kids to care for themselves

It is most unpleasant to have to watch your child develop and then try to cope with asthma. They are just too little to understand what it means and why they have problems breathing. The feeling of being useless in helping a child understand their illness better is common in all patients whose children suffer from asthma. This is precisely why Zoey asthma has been developed.