SUNDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) –
Exposure to air pollution while in the womb might harm the lung-function development of children with asthma, a new study finds.
Researchers conducted repeated evaluations of 162 asthmatic children between the ages of 6 and 15 in Fresno, Calif., and used U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data to determine the children’s mothers’ exposure to air pollution during pregnancy.
TUESDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) — Asthma continues to take its toll on Americans, with almost 19 million adults (8.2 percent) suffering from the disorder in 2010, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC analysis also found that more than 29 million (almost 13 percent) of adults have been diagnosed with the illness at some point in their lifetime.
TUESDAY, May 1 (HealthDay News) — Asthma often is misdiagnosed and undertreated in older people, with only 53 percent of those with asthma using prescribed inhalers, a small new study suggests.
The study included 77 people, including people both with and without asthma, who were over age 60. Of those with asthma, 89 percent also had allergies to mold, animals or dust mites.
TUESDAY, May 1 (HealthDay News) — Many asthmatic children in the United States are exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke and suffer health problems because of it, a new study shows.
“National asthma guidelines have advised avoidance of environmental tobacco smoke for patients with asthma for decades, but it is unclear to what degree these recommendations are being followed and what the impact of exposure has been in an era of increased awareness of the effects of environmental tobacco smoke exposure,” study author Dr. Lara Akinbami, medical officer at the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in an American Academy of Pediatrics news release.
By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, April 27 (HealthDay News) — Although all 50 states have laws that allow children with asthma to carry inhalers at school and 48 states have laws that let youngsters carry epinephrine pens for serious allergies, experts say that some kids are still being denied access to these lifesaving medications during the school day.
“Every school district handles this a little bit different, and for those who don’t allow children to carry their medications, I think may be due to a lack of knowledge. School officials may not appreciate the risk that having epinephrine pens and inhalers in a locked office, instead of with the child, can pose,” said Maureen George, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in Philadelphia.
By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, April 13 (HealthDay News) — Almost one in five parents has turned to an alternative or complementary medicine or treatment for their child’s asthma, but new research has found that parents are not abandoning traditional treatments in the process.
“We found that there were really no differences between the groups that used complementary and alternative medicine and those that didn’t [in terms of adherence]. It seems that parents are using these therapies as complementary medicine alongside prescribed asthma treatments,” said study author Dr. Julie Philp, a pediatrician and a dermatology resident at the University of California, San Francisco.
By Jenifer Goodwin
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, March 8 (HealthDay News) — Tests of more than 200 common household products found that the products contain chemicals that research suggests may be linked to asthma and hormone disruption, researchers report.
Products tested included a wide range of household products, such as soaps, lotions, detergents, cleaners, sunscreens, air fresheners, kitty litter, shaving cream, vinyl shower curtains, pillow protectors, cosmetics and perfumes.
By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter
TUESDAY, March 6 (HealthDay News) — Children growing up in the Amish culture in Switzerland have significantly less asthma and allergies than Swiss children who didn’t grow up on a farm, according to new research.
What’s more, the Amish youngsters even have less risk of asthma and allergy than Swiss children who grew up on non-Amish farms.
MONDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) — Children with asthma have a higher risk for developing shingles — a painful skin rash — following infection with the herpes zoster virus, new research reveals.
The authors noted that 1 million Americans are estimated to be infected with the herpes zoster virus every year. However, typically it’s a problem that strikes men and women over the age of 60 or people with weakened immune systems.
MONDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) — Babies born just a few weeks early appear to face a greater risk of developing asthma when compared with children born at full term, new research reveals.
The observation applied to infants born between the 34th and 37th week of pregnancy. One-quarter of such “late preterm” babies ended up with an asthma diagnosis by the age of 8 years, despite no prior indications of respiratory illness, the study team found. By contrast, just 15 percent of babies delivered after 37 weeks were found to develop asthma.
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