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Are you an asthma sufferer?  Manage your asthma or COPD with great ideas from people like you.Start here.

It's cold outside, so is this a cold or an allergy?

Dr. Paula J. Busse
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Dr. Paula J. Busse is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the...

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Friday, January 11, 2008
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Hi, I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday.   As it is the cold and flu season, I am frequently asked how you can tell the difference between having a cold and having allergies. Colds and allergies often have many of the same symptoms, such as a runny nose and a cough. However, there ...
  1. Treating cough after a cold like Asthma
    ronnie
    Friday, April 25, 2008 at 11:08 AM

    My doctor just did the same thing for my cough and I thought he was nuts!!! BTW he is a friend of mine. Come to find out it really is working so I guess he is not that nuts afterall. The Drs. comment on here is the only one that I have ran into that takes that avenue for treatment!! Good job Doc.

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An allergy is the immune system's over-reaction to a normally harmless substance called an allergen.

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