Yoga has tremendous benefits for children with asthma. This article will itemize some of those benefits as well as provide specific exercises which children with asthma can perform to reap these benefits. Yoga Teaches[...]

You feel it starting… shortness of breath, tight chest, wheezing and coughing. You’re having another asthma attack. You try to remember where you laid your inhaler… you just hope you don’t have[...]

I’m an asthma sufferer and for most of my life I have had to deal with my allergies to cats, dogs, dust mites and pollen triggering my asthma which sets off my wheezy chest and leaves me reaching for the ventol[...]

Allergic asthma is now a condition that affects millions of people in the western world. It can be found in adults as well as children and both sexes. In simple terms it is a chronic respiratory condition that result[...]

Asthma is one of the most common diseases in the world and is on the rise, especially among children. Treating asthma is a serious challenge because one in eight American children has asthma. On average, the rate is [...]

When a person with asthma experiences a sudden worsening of his or her asthma symptoms it is called an asthma attack. During an asthma attack, the smooth muscles around the bronchial tubes in the lungs contract, mak[...]

Asthma is a lung disorder whereby the bronchial airways are inflamed and constricted. There is also excess mucus production and this is due to injury to the airway surfaces. The asthmatic patient will experience heav[...]

Pollution is one factor that has become increasingly common in exacerbating asthma symptoms among sufferers. Other factors include our increasingly sedentary lifestyles, our lack of exposure to dirt and germs so that[...]

For asthmatics there is no doubt about the effectiveness of the conventional medication that you might be taking during attacks and flare ups. But what if you suddenly run out of it? What do you do? Will you be able [...]

All of us are familiar with the medical term ‘asthma’. If we don’t personally have asthma, we probably know at least one person who deals quite often with doctors wearing cheap nursing scrubs. Asthma[...]